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Faunsdale, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Faunsdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36738. The Survey maps it on the Uniontown West quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 220 feet above sea level.

Faunsdale within Marengo County

On record in Faunsdale

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 7 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Faunsdale fell from 98 to 90 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
201098
202090-8 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

2 photographs,

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.

Cedar Grove, Uniontown Road, Faunsdale, Marengo County, AL
Cedar Grove, Uniontown Road, Faunsdale, Marengo County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Norwood Plantation, County Road 54, Faunsdale, Marengo County, AL
Norwood Plantation, County Road 54, Faunsdale, Marengo County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Faunsdale between 1994 and 2020, burning about 224 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use32 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2002Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarism22 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Storms near this place

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Faunsdale in 11 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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
March 2011Flash FloodFaunsdale$75,000State Route 28 was closed from US Highway 80 to Lindon because of flooding.
May 2003HailFaunsdale$75,000Hail up to 2 inches in diameter was reported in extreme northeast Marengo County near Faunsdale.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindFaunsdale$9,000A few trees were blown down and one landed on an automobile.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindFaunsdale$6,000A few trees were blown down across northern Marengo County.
November 2006Thunderstorm WindFaunsdale$3,000Several trees were blown down along Highway 80, near Faunsdale.
April 2005HailFaunsdale$1,000Penny size hail was observed near Faunsdale.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindFaunsdale-Several trees were blown down around Faunsdale.
March 2022Tornado (EF1)Faunsdale-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northeast Marengo County and determined that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum winds near 100 mph. A brief tornado touched down in a open field just south of Hinton Road near Faunsdale. Large branches were broken from hardwood trees along a treeline in the field with some uprooted trees on Hinton Road. The tornado tracked northeastward through open pasture before reaching the town of Faunsdale. A majority of the damage was focused along Main Street where the roof and exterior wall were removed from the Faunsdale Bar and Grill. Surrounding structures sustained partial roof removal and tin panels were peeled back from the roof of a metal warehouse.|Minor tree damage was also noted in this area. The tornado lifted shortly after as it crossed Church Street.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFaunsdale-Several trees uprooted in the town of Faunsdale.
April 2003HailFaunsdale-Penny size hail was observed just northeast of Faunsdale along the Hale and Perry county lines.
February 2009HailFaunsdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marengo 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
Siddonsville3.1 miles11
Tombigbee (historical)5.3 miles11
McCorkle (historical)6.6 miles9
Lyon (historical)7.1 miles9
Dayton7.9 miles10
Old Spring Hill9.6 miles10
Alfalfa9.7 miles12
Crenshaw (historical)11.1 miles9

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 FaunsdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66503The 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 118220. 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.