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.
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 figuresEpes 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 192 | |
| 2020 | 272 | +80 (+42%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1929 USGS Epes quadrangle1:48000
- 1932 USGS Epes quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Epes West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS De Kalb quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20130916-001 |
| 16 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20200731-2 |
| 27 July 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 July 1996 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epes Lime Pit | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Swilleys Bend Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Epes | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Epes | $10,000 | The intersection of CR-20 and AL-39 was washed out due to heavy rainfall. |
| June 2006 | Lightning | Epes | $10,000 | A 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 2005 | Hail | Epes | $2,000 | Golf ball size hail was reported in the Epes area. |
| February 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Epes | - | Trees were downed in the Jones Bluff areas of Epes. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Epes | - | Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in the town of Epes. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Epes | - | Hail was reported at Epes. Several trees were also reported down in the area. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Epes | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parker | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| McCainville | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Sumterville | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| Bluffport | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Old Bluffport | 7.7 miles | 13 | |
| Livingston | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| Hamner | 8.4 miles | 8 | |
| Bethel (historical) | 8.6 miles | 8 |
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 Epes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q66560 | 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 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.






