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Elberta, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Elberta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36530. The Survey maps it on the Elberta quadrangle. 1,974 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 66 feet above sea level.

Elberta within Baldwin County

On record in Elberta

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

Population over time

2 figures

Elberta grew from 1,498 to 1,974 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
20101,498
20201,974+476 (+32%)

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.

Fires near this place

123 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Elberta between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,613 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 40 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/incendiarism40
Debris and open burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 September 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2014Natural200 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTARKLIN BAYOU
8 July 1995Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2000Natural12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 July 2002Arson/incendiarism50 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2006Arson/incendiarism100 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 June 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Elberta: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Baldwin County Gibbsite SandAluminumProspect1958

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elberta in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 hail, 3 tornado, 2 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
July 2006LightningElberta1 killedAn eleven year old boy was struck and killed by lightning while watering his animals near Elberta. Witnesses said there was only one cloud in the sky and the sun was shining when the boy was hit. He was likely hit by the first strike from the storm. He had a water hose in his hand when he was struck.
August 2011LightningElberta1 hurtno account filed
April 2018Tornado (EF0)Elberta$25,000The tornado first touched down near the intersection of County Road 87 and Chatelaine Drive. A few homes experienced shingle damage. Some trees were also uprooted. The|tornado continued moving almost due north, paralleling just east of County Road 87, lifting south of the Dixie Road intersection. Minor tree damage was noted along the path along with isolated instances of very minor structural damage to a few residences.
September 2008Tornado (EF0)Elberta$20,000A weak tornado briefly touched down just north of Elberta. The tornado blew down a couple of trees and a trailer home had roof damage.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindElberta$12,000Strong winds estimated at 60 mph damaged a roof and downed trees and power lines in Elberta.
December 2014Thunderstorm WindElberta$1,000Strong wind gusts near 50 mph uprooted a magnolia tree, which blocked the intersection of Highway 32 and Highway 83 South.
October 2025Tornado (EF1)Elberta-The tornado touched down just south of the intersection of Kleinschmidt Road and County Road 87, where minor tree damage was observed. Traveling to the northeast, the tornado crossed County Road 87, uprooting a couple of trees and removing portions of the roof from a small barn. The tornado continued to the northeast before strengthening along Woerner Road South. Here, a large barn lost much of its metal roof paneling, and several trees were uprooted. The tornado appears to have lifted before crossing Woerner Road.||October 29th update: Additional drone video was provided along County Road 87 that revealed the path width being close to 125 yards and an additional patch of trees within a tree stand behind the ground surveyed properties that had several skinny pine trees snapped low bringing the intensity to 95mph.||Special thanks to the Baldwin County EMA for their assistance with this survey.||After review of available high-resolution satellite imagery, the tornado was found to have begun slightly earlier in the forest to the south of Kleinschmidt Road. The tornado was also found to have turned to the east as it crossed Woerner Road South where it did minor tree damage before lifting.
January 2017HailElberta-Off duty NWS employee reported ping pong ball size hail in Elberta.
October 2017Flash FloodElberta-Water flowing over the road at the intersetion of CR95 and Woerner Road.
August 2016Flash FloodElberta-Water flowing over the road on County Road 87 south of Feely Road.
August 2006HailElberta-Golfball size hail was reported falling from a thunderstorm near Elberta. No damage was reported from the large hail.
March 2024HailElberta-no account filed
February 2017HailElberta-no account filed
April 2005HailElberta-no account filed
March 2003HailElberta-no account filed
April 1996HailElberta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baldwin 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
Swift3.0 miles17
Miflin3.1 miles19
Blue Grass Recreational Vehicle Park3.3 miles17
Foley4.6 miles17
Foley Recreational Vehicle Park5.7 miles17
Josephine7.0 miles19
Perdido Beach7.1 miles19
Summerdale7.4 miles17

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 ElbertaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q68218The 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 117910. 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.