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Fredonia, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Five Points census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36855. The Survey maps it on the Fredonia quadrangle. 198 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Fredonia within Chambers County

Population over time

2 figures

Fredonia fell from 199 to 198 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
2010199
2020198-1 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

109 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Fredonia between 1994 and 2020, burning about 910 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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 burning45
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
9 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20130909-001
29 September 2019Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-7
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2009Arson/incendiarism17 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCOUNTY RD.267/CO. RD 270, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fredonia: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum. 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
Chambers County Gibbsite ProspectAluminumOccurrence1977

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fredonia in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2002Thunderstorm WindFredonia$75,000Numerous trees were knocked down in and around Fredonia. Several lake front homes at Southern Harbor sustained varying damage from the wind and falling trees. Dock A was totally destroyed and 20 boats were damaged.
March 1996HailFredonia$10,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFredonia-Trees were downed in the Fredonia community.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Oakland3.1 miles14
Wards Mill3.2 miles13
Old Atkinson Crossing3.4 miles15
Five Points3.8 miles11
Denson4.0 miles13
Finley4.8 miles11
Stroud5.0 miles11
Cumbee Mill5.6 miles11

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 FredoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1262220The 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 118613. 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.