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.
Population over time
2 figuresEclectic 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,001 | |
| 2020 | 1,193 | +192 (+19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Eclectic quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
143 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 64 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 3.9 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | AL HWY 9, AL |
| 29 August 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | 4.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1996 | Tornado (F3) | Eclectic | $700,000 | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Eclectic | $500,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eclectic | $20,000 | Numerous trees were blown down, including one onto a house, on Double Bridge Ferry Road, near Eclectic. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eclectic | $20,000 | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Eclectic | $15,000 | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Eclectic | $11,000 | Golf ball size hail fell in and around Eclectic. The hail covered the ground. |
| June 2010 | Lightning | Eclectic | $10,000 | A lightning strike caused the attic area of a home to catch fire. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eclectic | $10,000 | A few trees and powerlines reported down in downtown Eclectic. Winds were estimated at around 45 mph. |
| March 1996 | Hail | Eclectic | $10,000 | no account filed |
| November 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eclectic | $5,000 | A large tree limb was blown down and heavily damaged a vehicle. |
| June 2010 | Lightning | Eclectic | $5,000 | A lightning strike damaged some electronic equipment at the Eclectic police dispatch office. |
| March 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eclectic | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down on Pleasant Hill Road and on Colley Road in Eclectic. |
| January 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eclectic | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were knocked down in Eclectic. |
| January 1997 | Hail | Eclectic | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eclectic | $2,000 | A few trees were knocked down near the southern end of Lake Martin. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eclectic | $2,000 | Power 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 1998 | Hail | Eclectic | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eclectic | $1,000 | A few trees were blown down in Eclectic. |
| January 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eclectic | - | Multiple trees down in the Eclectic community of Elmore County. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eclectic | - | Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in Eclectic. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eclectic | - | A tree was blown down in Eclectic. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eclectic | - | A tree was reported down blocking Highway 63 in Eclectic. |
| November 2006 | Flash Flood | Eclectic | - | 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 2005 | Hail | Eclectic | - | Penny size hail was observed near Lake Martin in far northeastern 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glendale Acres | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Floyd | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Chana Creek | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Cotton | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Falkner | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Claud | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Good Hope | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| Central | 4.7 miles | 16 |
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 Eclectic | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q67141 | The 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.









