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Deer Park, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fruitdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36529. It stands on Yellowhouse Branch. The Survey maps it on the Deer Park quadrangle. 141 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

Deer Park within Washington County

Population over time

2 figures

Deer Park fell from 188 to 141 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
2010188
2020141-47 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

117 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Deer Park between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3,562 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 39 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
Arson/incendiarism39
Debris and open burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2

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
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-12
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190905-2
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190917-14
17 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2015Natural16 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150806-001
31 August 1995Debris and open burning30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deer Park in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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
April 1998Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$200,000no account filed
April 1998HailDeer Park$50,000no account filed
April 1998Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$20,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$10,000Winds estimated at 60 mph blew down several tress across the area. One tree fell on a house.
April 1998HailDeer Park$10,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$8,000Trees and power lines were blown down by high thunderstorm winds along U. S. Highway 45 south of Deer Park.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$8,000Several trees were blown down along US Highway 45 near Deer Park.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$5,000Several trees were blown down near Deer Park as a line of thunderstorms moved through.
September 1996Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$1,500no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$1,500no account filed
April 2015Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$1,000A severe thunderstorm wind gust blew down a large tree across Highway 45 north of Deer Park.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindDeer Park-High winds report trees down near the Deer Park community.
December 2012Tornado (EF1)Deer Park-The tornado touched down two miles south southwest of|Deer Park. The tornado widened to 110 yards as it passed just south|of a few houses. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted at the|widest point. The tornado continued to highway 45 and dissipated.
April 2000HailDeer Park-Dime size hail was reported near Deer Park.
March 2017HailDeer Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Vinegar Bend3.6 miles11
Burbank3.9 miles14
Dwight5.5 miles15
Walley6.1 miles14
Escatawpa6.2 miles12
Four Point6.3 miles11
Epworth6.4 miles12
Sims Chapel8.9 miles15

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 Deer ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q277880The 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 155050. 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.

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.