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Gallant, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Gadsden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35972. It lies near Bald Hill. The Survey maps it on the Steele quadrangle. 869 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Gallant within Etowah County

Population over time

2 figures

Gallant grew from 855 to 869 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
2010855
2020869+14 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

88 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Gallant between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,035 acres in total. None started naturally. 49 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
Arson/incendiarism49
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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 1997Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning35 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-30
20 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Gallant: 8 past producers, 7 prospects, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Nickel, Cobalt, Cobalt. 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
Greasy CoveManganese, Nickel, CobaltOccurrence
Greasy Cove ProspectManganese, CobaltPast ProducerPyrolusite
Greasy Cove DepositManganesePast Producer1934
Sewell DepositManganesePast Producer1949
Tumlin Gap Manganese ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Brothers Mill Gap/Moodys GapIronPast Producer
Garigues GapIronPast Producer
Greasy Cove Area ProspectIronOccurrence
Greasy Cove MinesIronPast Producer
Greasy Cove MinesIronProspectBEDDED

Every working recorded in Etowah County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gallant in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1999Thunderstorm WindGallant1 hurt, $800,000Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down or uprooted in southern Etowah County sporadically along this path. Many trees blocked roadways. 10 single family homes were totally destroyed. 20 homes sustained major damage. Minor damage was reported to another 29 homes. Two mobile homes were demolished and four additional mobile homes received minor damage. One man in North Gadsden was injured when his home crumbled. He had several bruises and a concussion. In Walnut Park, one woman died, apparently of natural causes, but it occurred in the middle of the storm. Stowers Manufacturing Plant in Gadsden had a large portion of its roof torn off. The damage was heavily concentrated in Gadsden and Walnut Park.
July 1999LightningGallant1 hurt, $1,000A Gallant man was struck by lightning according to newspaper reports. He was working at a home when lightning apparently ran through a power cord on the saw he was using. He received only a minor shock and was not seriously injured. Another lightning strike ran down a tree and into a house, blowing a hole through the wall.
April 1998Tornado (F1)Gallant$70,000An F1 tornado began just west of Gallant in western Etowah county. Hundreds of trees were snapped and uprooted from 1 mile west of Gallant to 2 miles west of Attalla. One trailer was flipped over on its top, and it lost more than half of its metal roof. One old barn lost its entire roof. Another trailer, about 6 miles east-northeast of Gallant, lost its roof. Several trees fell onto homes along the path.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindGallant$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Gallant and the surrounding area.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindGallant$5,000Several trees were blown down across the county, especially from the Ball Play Community eastward to Gallant.
November 2002Tornado (F1)Gallant$4,000no account filed
April 2010Thunderstorm WindGallant$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down northwest of Gallant and east of Altoona. One 32 year old man was killed (indirect) when the car he was a passenger in struck a tree that had fallen across the road.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindGallant$2,000A few trees were knocked down in and around Gallant.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindGallant$1,000Trees were blown down in the Gallant community.
March 1998HailGallant-Dime size hail was reported in Gallant, in the southwest part of the county.

Every storm recorded in Etowah 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
Bethlehem1.6 miles21
Nash (historical)1.7 miles21
Clear Springs (historical)1.7 miles21
Boxtel1.8 miles22
Schuler (historical)2.6 miles22
Nix (historical)3.3 miles21
Shahan (historical)3.4 miles22
Harrisville3.6 miles19

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 GallantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1285828The 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 118790. 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.