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Dozier, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Brantley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36028. It stands on Hornet Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dozier quadrangle. 285 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.

Dozier within Crenshaw County

Population over time

2 figures

Dozier fell from 329 to 285 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
2010329
2020285-44 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

55 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Dozier between 1994 and 2020, burning about 400 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2010Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190707-4
18 July 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 July 1995Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crenshaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Dozier: 8 unknowns, 6 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Crenshaw County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dozier in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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
May 2005Tornado (F0)Dozier$15,000A weak tornado briefly touched down near Dozier. The tornado blew down several trees and power lines and also damaged a couple of out buildings.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindDozier$15,000Structural damage, due to high thunderstorm winds, was reported in the community.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindDozier$12,000no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindDozier$10,000High winds blew down several trees near Dozier.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindDozier$2,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed power lines along Leon Tower Road.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindDozier$2,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees in Dozier.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindDozier$1,500Several trees and power lines were blown down in Dozier.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindDozier-High winds downed trees and power lines across south Crenshaw County.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindDozier-High winds downed trees on Rose Hill Road.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDozier-Multiple trees were downed by a severe thunderstorm just north of Dozier.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDozier-Trees down and power out near Gantt Lake.
January 1999HailDozier-Dime size hail was reported in the community.
March 2005HailDozier-no account filed
June 2001Funnel CloudDozier-no account filed
August 2000HailDozier-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crenshaw 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
Searight2.1 miles8
New Hope3.6 miles7
Leon4.8 miles7
Theba5.5 miles7
Merrill Mill7.3 miles7
Weed Crossroad7.7 miles7
Mulberry8.0 miles7
Brantley8.5 miles7

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 DozierAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66285The 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 117451. 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.