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Coffee Springs, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bellwood-Coffee Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36318. It stands on Little Beaverdam Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coffee Springs quadrangle. 206 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 246 feet above sea level.

Coffee Springs within Geneva County

Population over time

3 figures

Coffee Springs fell from 251 to 206 between 2000 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
2000251
2010228-23 (-9%)
2020206-22 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

74 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Coffee Springs between 1994 and 2020, burning about 518 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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 burning25
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-12
17 September 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2005Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140808-001
17 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Geneva County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Coffee Springs: 33 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite. 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
Bellwood QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
J M Smith ProspectGraphiteProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Geneva County

Storms near this place

16 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coffee Springs in 16 storm reports between 2015 and 2026: 14 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCoffee Springs$100,000High winds destroyed two barns in Geneva county.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindCoffee Springs$25,000A picture was submitted of a barn collapsed in Coffee Springs.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCoffee Springs$20,000Trees were blown down and a barn was damaged in the Coffee Springs area.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindCoffee Springs$5,000Roof damage was reported in the Coffee springs area.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCoffee Springs$2,000Strong winds blew a tree onto power lines near Bobby Jones Road and Long Branch road, resulting in a power outage.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindCoffee Springs$1,000Several large trees were blown down in the Coffee Springs area.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindCoffee Springs-Trees were down on Highway 2 going towards Chancellor.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindCoffee Springs-A tree was blown down at Highway 52 at Coffee Springs Road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCoffee Springs-Geneva county dispatch reported a tree down on County Road 65 near Five Points.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindCoffee Springs-A tree was blown down in the Coffee Springs area.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindCoffee Springs-Trees were blown down in the Coffee Springs area.
March 2016Flash FloodCoffee Springs-Several roads were flooded near Coffee Springs.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCoffee Springs-Two trees were blown down on County Road 13.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCoffee Springs-Trees were blown down around Coffee Springs.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindCoffee Springs-A large part of a tree was blown down across County Road 21 and blocked the road.
March 2018HailCoffee Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Geneva 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
Chancellor2.1 miles12
Center Ridge2.3 miles12
Scranton4.1 miles11
Costilla (historical)4.1 miles12
Spears4.3 miles12
Mount Carmel4.9 miles8
Sellersville5.6 miles8
Bellwood6.2 miles11

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 Coffee SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65905The 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 116355. 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.