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Epes, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Livingston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35460. It sits by Jones Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Epes West quadrangle. 272 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 167 feet above sea level.

Epes within Sumter County

On record in Epes

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

Epes grew from 192 to 272 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
2010192
2020272+80 (+42%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Epes between 1994 and 2020, burning about 188 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use4
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
8 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20130916-001
16 September 1997Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200731-2
27 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 July 1996Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Epes: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Epes Lime PitCalciumProducer
Swilleys Bend PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Epes in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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
September 1996Thunderstorm WindEpes$15,000no account filed
May 2009Flash FloodEpes$10,000The intersection of CR-20 and AL-39 was washed out due to heavy rainfall.
June 2006LightningEpes$10,000A vehicle was struck by lightning while traveling near mile marker 21 on Interstate 20/59. Although the vehicle was completely disabled by the strike, the occupants were not harmed.
July 2005HailEpes$2,000Golf ball size hail was reported in the Epes area.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindEpes-Trees were downed in the Jones Bluff areas of Epes.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindEpes-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in the town of Epes.
July 1995HailEpes-Hail was reported at Epes. Several trees were also reported down in the area.
September 2009HailEpes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Parker4.2 miles13
McCainville5.4 miles13
Sumterville6.2 miles13
Bluffport6.7 miles13
Old Bluffport7.7 miles13
Livingston8.0 miles13
Hamner8.4 miles8
Bethel (historical)8.6 miles8

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 EpesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66560The 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 118012. 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.