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Eclectic, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Eclectic census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36024. The Survey maps it on the Eclectic quadrangle. 1,193 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 579 feet above sea level.

Eclectic within Elmore County

Population over time

2 figures

Eclectic grew from 1,001 to 1,193 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
20101,001
20201,193+192 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

143 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Eclectic between 1994 and 2020, burning about 881 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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 burning64
Arson/incendiarism21
Recreation and ceremony18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking2
Fireworks1
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
28 September 2001Debris and open burning3.9 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2011Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionAL HWY 9, AL
29 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1998Debris and open burning4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1998Debris and open burning3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eclectic in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 tornado, 2 lightning. 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
March 1996Tornado (F3)Eclectic$700,000no account filed
March 1996Tornado (F1)Eclectic$500,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEclectic$20,000Numerous trees were blown down, including one onto a house, on Double Bridge Ferry Road, near Eclectic.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindEclectic$20,000no account filed
March 1996HailEclectic$15,000no account filed
April 2005HailEclectic$11,000Golf ball size hail fell in and around Eclectic. The hail covered the ground.
June 2010LightningEclectic$10,000A lightning strike caused the attic area of a home to catch fire.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindEclectic$10,000A few trees and powerlines reported down in downtown Eclectic. Winds were estimated at around 45 mph.
March 1996HailEclectic$10,000no account filed
November 2010Thunderstorm WindEclectic$5,000A large tree limb was blown down and heavily damaged a vehicle.
June 2010LightningEclectic$5,000A lightning strike damaged some electronic equipment at the Eclectic police dispatch office.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindEclectic$3,000Trees were knocked down on Pleasant Hill Road and on Colley Road in Eclectic.
January 2001Thunderstorm WindEclectic$3,000Trees and power lines were knocked down in Eclectic.
January 1997HailEclectic$3,000no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindEclectic$2,000A few trees were knocked down near the southern end of Lake Martin.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindEclectic$2,000Power was out and trees were reported down in northeast Elmore County about six miles northeast of Eclectic. The area affected was around the Highway 63 and 229 intersection.
June 1998HailEclectic$2,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindEclectic$1,000A few trees were blown down in Eclectic.
January 2026Thunderstorm WindEclectic-Multiple trees down in the Eclectic community of Elmore County.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEclectic-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in Eclectic.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindEclectic-A tree was blown down in Eclectic.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindEclectic-A tree was reported down blocking Highway 63 in Eclectic.
November 2006Flash FloodEclectic-County Road 44 and Eclectic Methodist Church became flooded. Water covered the roadway at Cherokee Trail and Runt O'Daniel Road in the Kent Community.
March 2005HailEclectic-Penny size hail was observed near Lake Martin in far northeastern Elmore County.

Every storm recorded in Elmore 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
Glendale Acres2.3 miles17
Floyd2.6 miles17
Chana Creek2.6 miles11
Cotton3.3 miles16
Falkner4.2 miles16
Claud4.3 miles17
Good Hope4.4 miles17
Central4.7 miles16

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 EclecticAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67141The 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 117848. 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.