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Edwardsville, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Heflin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36264. It stands on Town Creek. The Survey maps it on the Heflin quadrangle. 206 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Edwardsville within Cleburne County

On record in Edwardsville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Edwardsville grew from 202 to 206 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
2010202
2020206+4 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Cleburne County Courthouse, U.S. Route 78, Edwardsville, Cleburne County, AL
Cleburne County Courthouse, U.S. Route 78, Edwardsville, Cleburne County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

329 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 329 fires within 5 miles of Edwardsville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 7,508 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 194 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/incendiarism194
Debris and open burning79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony12
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2016Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160908-17
28 September 2016Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-35
26 September 2016Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160926-5
26 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160926-10
22 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2008Arson/incendiarism55 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO.RD.82, AL
19 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Edwardsville: 2 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Iron, Manganese, Aluminum. 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
Henderson DepositManganesePast Producer1953
Stringfellow DepositAluminumProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Heflin MillMicaPlant
Pat Ayers No. 5 ProspectMicaProspect
Schefner No. 2 MineMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cleburne County

Storms near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edwardsville in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 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 2008Tornado (EF1)Edwardsville$50,000The tornado touched down near Exit 205 along Interstate 20, or 5 miles east of Heflin, and traveled eastward. The tornado affected areas generally along CR-114 east of SR-46. The tornado lifted just west of the intersection of CR-114 and CR-62. Several homes were badly damaged and at least two had significant portions of their roofs blown off. Numerous trees were blown down or were snapped off along the path.
December 2000Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville$4,000Several trees were blown down in the National Forest just north and northwest of Edwardsville.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville$1,000Several trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville$1,000A few trees were blown down near Edwardsville.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-Wooden power lines pushed over to the ground.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-Large tree uprooted along Interstate 20 near exit 205.
December 2005HailEdwardsville-Penny size hail was reported near Edwardsville.
May 2003HailEdwardsville-Quarter size hail fell in the Edwardsville area.
July 2018HailEdwardsville-no account filed
February 2009HailEdwardsville-no account filed
March 2003Tornado (F1)Edwardsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cleburne 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
Mount Pleasant2.3 miles17
Fruithurst4.3 miles15
Ai5.1 miles15
Heflin5.8 miles17
Coldwater5.8 miles16
Bell Mills6.5 miles14
Abernathy6.7 miles15
Muscadine6.8 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 EdwardsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67195The 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 159560. 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.