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Cleveland, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Cleveland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35049. It lies near Flat Top. The Survey maps it on the Cleveland quadrangle. 1,245 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 518 feet above sea level.

Cleveland within Blount County

On record in Cleveland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Cleveland fell from 1,303 to 1,245 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,303
20201,245-58 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Swann Bridge, Spanning Locust Fork of Black Warrior River, Swann Bridge Road, Cleveland, Blount County, AL
Swann Bridge, Spanning Locust Fork of Black Warrior River, Swann Bridge Road, Cleveland, Blount County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

88 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Cleveland between 1994 and 2019, burning about 603 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 17 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20130927-001
22 September 2016Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160922-1
19 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionBLOSSOM LANE, AL
7 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2006Natural22 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140803-004
27 August 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionADAM RD, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blount County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cleveland: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Village Springs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Blount CountyIronPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Blount County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleveland in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 16 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 5 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 1994Tornado (F1)Cleveland5 hurt, $500,000A tornado produced a damage path 1.6 miles in length and about 100 yards wide on a northeasterly track. The first damage occurred about 1 miles east of Cleveland in central Blount County. After damaging or destroying several mobile homes and a couple of permanent structures, the tornado crossed U. S. Highway 231 and continued northeast damaging several more structures and another mobile home. All five injuries occurred in mobile homes, three in one and two in another. Injuries to one man required 100 stitches.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCleveland$20,000Thunderstorm winds caused damage to the doors of the Cleveland Fire Department building. A tree was blown down onto a school bus, at a bus shop in the same area.
March 1996HailCleveland$10,000no account filed
May 1996HailCleveland$8,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCleveland$5,000Severeal trees were blown down and blocked US-231, from County Road 1 to Swann Bridge Road, in Cleveland.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindCleveland$2,000Several trees were blown down on AL-79, near Cleveland.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindCleveland$1,000A few trees blown down.
May 2023HailCleveland-Quarter size hail reported south of Cleveland along Highway 79.
May 2023Flash FloodCleveland-High water levels and flooding reported along Highway 79 in Cleveland.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindCleveland-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in the city of Cleveland.
February 2019HailCleveland-Penny size hail hail covering ground along Highway 231 in the town of Cleveland.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCleveland-Several trees uprooted along Highway 79 near the town of Cleveland.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCleveland-Trees uprooted on Swan Bridge Road.
August 2009Flash FloodCleveland-Heavy rain caused water to cover the road, which led to the closure of AL-160 at Locust Fork.
February 2003HailCleveland-Penny to quarter size hail was observed in Cleveland. Trees were blown down around the same time in Hayden and in Rosa.
May 2003HailCleveland-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported in and around Cleveland.
September 2000HailCleveland-Dime size hail was reported in Cleveland and in few other locations in central Blount County.
June 1999HailCleveland-Hail up to the size of a quarter fell in Cleveland.
May 1995HailCleveland-Quarter-size hail was reported at Cleveland.
May 1994HailCleveland-State police reported hail from marble- to golf ball-size near Cleveland about six miles northwest of Oneonta.
April 2022HailCleveland-no account filed
July 2012HailCleveland-no account filed
April 2006HailCleveland-no account filed
April 2006HailCleveland-no account filed
April 2006HailCleveland-no account filed
May 1998HailCleveland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blount County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Fairview2.4 miles21
Five Points2.5 miles20
Easley2.9 miles21
Fowler Spring3.0 miles20
Blow Gourd3.1 miles21
Rosa3.4 miles21
Joy3.6 miles20
Sky Ball3.8 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on ClevelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65881The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157920. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.