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Fitzpatrick, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fitzpatrick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36029. The Survey maps it on the Fitzpatrick quadrangle. 79 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 262 feet above sea level.

Fitzpatrick within Bullock County

Population over time

2 figures

Fitzpatrick fell from 83 to 79 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
201083
202079-4 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Fitzpatrick between 1995 and 2015, burning about 164 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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 burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1995Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 June 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 May 2007Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 April 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCO.ROAD #7 HIGHLOG ROAD, AL
8 March 2006Debris and open burning30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 March 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullock 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 Fitzpatrick: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Bul 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Bul 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Bullock County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fitzpatrick in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2012: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
February 2000Tornado (F0)Fitzpatrick$10,000The third of three tornadoes produced by the same supercell thunderstorm occurred just north of Fitzpatrick. The tornado track was about 1 mile long and 50 yards wide. The tornado crossed CR 7 about 2 miles north of Fitzpatrick. Several trees were uprooted or damaged. Beginning: 32 14.698/85 53.916 Ending: 32 15.155/85 52.937
April 2005HailFitzpatrick$1,000Large hail reported in the county.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindFitzpatrick-A few large trees were uprooted, blocking a roadway near the community of Fitzpatrick.
December 2005HailFitzpatrick-Penny size hail was reported along SR 110 near the Mitchell community.
August 2006HailFitzpatrick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bullock 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
Mitchell3.3 miles9
Thompson4.3 miles9
Cornerstone4.9 miles9
Hector7.3 miles9
Shopton7.4 miles9
Simsville7.8 miles8
Bruceville8.5 miles8
Sedgefield10.0 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 FitzpatrickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1273484The 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 157952. 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.