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East Point, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Simcoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35055. It stands on Polecat Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cullman quadrangle. 172 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

East Point within Cullman County

Population over time

2 figures

East Point fell from 201 to 172 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
2010201
2020172-29 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of East Point between 1994 and 2019, burning about 127 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160908-9
6 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-24
20 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160920-3
17 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160915-8
29 August 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman 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
Bolte2.5 miles19
Carrol Acres2.6 miles19
Cullman2.7 miles19
Berlin2.7 miles17
Walkers Corner2.7 miles17
Phelan3.7 miles19
Smithdale3.7 miles19
Pleasant View3.9 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 East PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1262286The 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 117784. 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.