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.
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
Altwoodlisted 1993
Cedar Crestlisted 1993
Cedar Grove Plantationlisted 1993
Cuba Plantationlisted 1993
Faunsdale Plantationlisted 1993
Roseland Plantationlisted 1994- Cedar Havenlisted 1993
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- Cedar Grove, Uniontown Road, Faunsdalefederal building survey, 33 photographs
- Norwood Plantation, County Road 54, Faunsdalefederal building survey, 4 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresFaunsdale 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 98 | |
| 2020 | 90 | -8 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Uniontown West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
29 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 32 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 22 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2011 | Flash Flood | Faunsdale | $75,000 | State Route 28 was closed from US Highway 80 to Lindon because of flooding. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Faunsdale | $75,000 | Hail up to 2 inches in diameter was reported in extreme northeast Marengo County near Faunsdale. |
| February 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faunsdale | $9,000 | A few trees were blown down and one landed on an automobile. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faunsdale | $6,000 | A few trees were blown down across northern Marengo County. |
| November 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faunsdale | $3,000 | Several trees were blown down along Highway 80, near Faunsdale. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Faunsdale | $1,000 | Penny size hail was observed near Faunsdale. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faunsdale | - | Several trees were blown down around Faunsdale. |
| March 2022 | Tornado (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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faunsdale | - | Several trees uprooted in the town of Faunsdale. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Faunsdale | - | Penny size hail was observed just northeast of Faunsdale along the Hale and Perry county lines. |
| February 2009 | Hail | Faunsdale | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Siddonsville | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Tombigbee (historical) | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| McCorkle (historical) | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Lyon (historical) | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Dayton | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Old Spring Hill | 9.6 miles | 10 | |
| Alfalfa | 9.7 miles | 12 | |
| Crenshaw (historical) | 11.1 miles | 9 |
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 Faunsdale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q66503 | 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 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.




