Forkland, Alabama

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 3 records

• Rosemountlisted 1971
• St. John's-In-The-Prairielisted 1975
• Thornhilllisted 1984

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 records

• Episcopal Church, County Road 4 (moved from original location), Forklandfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• H. B. Brewer House, County Road 4, Forklandfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Levy-Glover Store, County Roads 19 & 4, Forklandfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• McAlpin House, F.A.S. 1306, Forklandfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Methodist Church, County Road 19 (Moved to Andalusia vicinity, AL), Forklandfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Methodist Parsonage, County Road 4, Forklandfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Perrin-Willis House, County Road 19, Forklandfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Rosemount, County Road 19, Forklandfederal building survey, 20 photographs
• Strawberry Hill Plantation, U.S. Route 43, Forklandfederal building survey, 11 photographs
• The Tavern, County Road 19, Forklandfederal building survey, 11 photographs
• Thornhill Plantation, County Road 19, Forklandfederal building survey, 37 photographs
• Virginia Glover House, County Roads 19 & 4, Forklandfederal building survey, 7 photographs

Forkland fell from 629 to 445 between 2000 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.

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.

• 1947 USGS Forkland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1949 USGS Forkland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Forkland between 1994 and 2018, burning about 620 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Jackson Quarters
• Birdeye
• Merriwether
• Rosemont
• Thornhill
• Walden Quarters

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Forkland: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Greene County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forkland in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Greene County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118505. 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.