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Gallion, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Newbern census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36742. The Survey maps it on the Gallion quadrangle. It stands 190 feet above sea level.

Gallion within Hale County

On record in Gallion

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 4 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Gallion between 1995 and 2020, burning about 261 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2002Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20120706-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gallion: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Demopolis Quarry & Cement PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Tolar QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Hale County

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gallion in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 5 tornado, 4 hail, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 deaths and 1 injury. 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
May 1999LightningGallion2 killed, 1 hurtTwo men were killed as they took shelter on shore after getting off the water. The two men had headed out for a fishing trip on the Black Warrior River. The event occurred near the Arcola Landing. The wife of the elder man was knocked unconscious when the lightning struck, however, she had moved away from the two men just before the lightning strike occurred.
March 2000HailGallion$2,000no account filed
March 2025Tornado (EF0)Gallion-The tornado touched down just north of US Highway 80, west of|Allenville Road, producing minor tree damage to numerous cedar|trees. The broad, weak but discernible tornado moved|northeastward crossing Allenville Road, CR 12, and AL Highway 25,|continuing to cause scattered tree damage. The tornado crossed AL|Highway 61 north of Newbern, and began to turn more to the east. It crossed into Perry County east of Highway 61.
January 2023Tornado (EF0)Gallion-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southwest Hale County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 73 mph. This tornado originated in Marengo County and crossed into southwest Hale County about one-half mile west of Highway 69. A few softwood trees were uprooted near the county line as the tornado tracked northeast and crossed Highway 69. Beyond that, the visible damage was mostly broken tree branches as the tornado crossed Highway 80 and lifted.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindGallion-Several trees uprooted in the town of Gallion.
April 2019Tornado (EF0)Gallion-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Hale County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 80 mph. The tornado touched down on the south side of E Z Street just south of Highway 80 and tracked northeast where it knocked over a trailer at Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church. The tornado continued northeast across Gallion Road where it caused timber damage and ripped most of the metal roofing and sides off a large metal shed. Timber damage continued as it moved northeast, impacting portions of Davis and Hall Roads. A home just west of Hall Road suffered minor damage to shingles and overhangs while a home on the north end of Hall Road was impacted by an uprooted tree that resulted in partial roof damage. A large shed between Hall Road and Highway 69 lost nearly all of its metal roof. North of the damaged shed, a home suffered minor siding damage. The tornado then tracked northeast, causing timber damage as it crossed Highway 69 and destroying a shed along with damaging another larger shed. Notable timber damage was observed north and northeast of this point as the tornado moved east of Highway 69 into uninhabited and inaccessible areas. Tornado damage was evident from Prairie Oaks Ranch located on Pecan Road. The tornado caused damage to several trees on the property and some fencing along Cat Bottom Road. The tornado moved northeast across open fields with timber damage along a tree line found along County Road 10. The tornado tracked northeast across County Road 9 where it ripped some metal tin off of a barn and caused additional tree damage. The tornado moved across open fields until it impacted portions of a tree line along a farm road just west of Highway 9. Additional timber damage was found further north along County Road 9 as the tornado turned more northeast. The tornado caused sporadic tree damage before lifting just south of County Road 16.
February 2018Tornado (EF0)Gallion-The National Weather Service surveyed damage in southeast Hale County and determined the damage was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 65 mph. This tornado was a continuation of a tornado that began near Highway 43 in Marengo County. The tornado crossed into Hale County near Cottonwood Creek and was in a dissipation phase, only producing some minor damage to trees before it dissipated near County Road 25.
November 2016Tornado (EF1)Gallion-This tornado is a continuation from Marengo County. National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in extreme northern Marengo and southeast Hale Counties and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF-1 tornado, with maximum winds estimated near 90 mph.||The tornado crossed into southern Hale County about 1 mile west of County Road 25. Several more trees sustained damage along County Road 12, County Road 10, and Alabama Highway 25 and Alabama Highway 61. The tornado lifted near Alabama Highway 61 just west of Perry County line.
May 2003HailGallion-Penny to quarter size hail was reported across extreme southern Hale County near Gallion. The hail may have been much larger in rural southeast Hale County. This was the second hail storm to move across Hale County within an hour. This storm was the storm that eventually caused the damage in Uniontown.
February 2009HailGallion-no account filed
April 2007HailGallion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hale 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
Prairieville1.5 miles12
Allenville3.0 miles11
Oak Grove4.0 miles12
Arcola5.0 miles12
Casemore6.0 miles12
Lock Five6.1 miles12
Laneville6.6 miles9
Cedarville8.4 miles12

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 GallionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5519094The 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 155075. 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.