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Fulton, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fulton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36446. It stands on Orphans Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fulton East quadrangle. 223 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.

Fulton within Clarke County

Population over time

2 figures

Fulton fell from 272 to 223 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
2010272
2020223-49 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Fulton between 1994 and 2019, burning about 545 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning16
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
8 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2005Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined182 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20130920-001
2 September 2014Natural2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140902-002
26 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2007Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2000Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke 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 Fulton: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fullers Earth, Zeolites. 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
Tallahatta Claystone, Clarke CountyFullers Earth, ZeolitesProspectBEDDED

Every working recorded in Clarke County

Storms near this place

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fulton in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2009Flash FloodFulton$50,000Heavy rains from a thunderstorm flooded the fire department and post office in Fulton. Water also covered the railroad tracks near Fulton.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindFulton$15,000Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph downed trees near Highway 43 and Skyline Road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindFulton$10,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees and power lines in Fulton.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindFulton$10,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew some tin off a school building and scattered it around the school. The tin was blown from a make shift building that was added to the school. Trees were also blown down.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindFulton$10,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew several trees down and blew some shingles from a home near Fulton.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindFulton$8,000Trees were blown down near Fulton by high winds from a thunderstorm.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindFulton$4,000Several trees were blown down along State Highway 178 near Fulton. The damage was sporadic and ended where SR 178 crosses U. S Highway 43.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindFulton$3,000Several trees were blown down along US Highway 43 just west of Fulton.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindFulton$500Several trees and power lines were blown down along State Highway 178 between Fulton and Greenwood.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindFulton-High winds downed trees down on powerlines in the Fulton and Dickinson communities.
August 2022Flash FloodFulton-Heavy rain caused flooding on southeast Maine Street in Fulton.
June 2017Flash FloodFulton-Flash flooding resulted in the closure of Bassetts Creek Road.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFulton-Near the community of Liberty, halfway between Thomasville and Grove Hill, a large tree was blown down by severe thunderstorm winds near 60 mph and fell across Old Highway 5.
January 2010Thunderstorm WindFulton-Tree blown down blocking the road near U.S. Highway 43 at the Fulton junction.
October 2010HailFulton-Clarke County EMA reported nickel size hail in Fulton.
October 2010HailFulton-Fulton Police Department reported quarter to golf ball size hail in Fulton.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindFulton-Trees and power lines down on Old Grove Hill Road near Fulton.
March 2023HailFulton-no account filed
May 2014HailFulton-no account filed
February 2014HailFulton-no account filed
March 2003HailFulton-no account filed
July 2003HailFulton-no account filed
July 2003HailFulton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clarke 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
Greenwood1.8 miles8
Dickinson1.9 miles7
Peacock3.3 miles8
Springfield3.6 miles8
Scyrene4.8 miles7
Rural5.3 miles7
McWer5.3 miles7
Nettleboro5.6 miles7

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 FultonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67595The 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 118753. 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.