Fort Payne, 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 8 records

• Alabama Builder's Hardware Manufacturing Company Complex (Boundary Increase)listed 1992
• Alabama Builders' Hardware Manufacturing Companylisted 1986
• Alabama Great Southern Railroad Passenger Depotlisted 1971
• Cherokee Plantationlisted 1984
• Fort Payne Boom Town Historic Districtlisted 1989
• Fort Payne Main Street Historic Districtlisted 1989
• Fort Payne Opera Houselisted 1970
• Fort Payne Residential Historic Districtlisted 1988

Fort Payne grew from 12,938 to 14,877 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.

• 1893 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:125000
• 1898 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1946 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1946 USGS Ft Payne quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Ft Payne quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Rome quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Fort Payne between 1997 and 2020, burning about 889 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 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:

• Douglas
• Minvale
• Hughes Mill
• Rawlingsville (historical)
• Wills Valley
• Blake

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Fort Payne: 8 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 2 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Kaolin, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fullers Earth. 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 DeKalb County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Payne in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 1996: 1 hail, 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.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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 150235. 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.