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Garden City, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Hanceville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35077. It stands on Garden City Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Garden City quadrangle. 528 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 502 feet above sea level.

Garden City within Cullman County

Population over time

3 figures

Garden City fell from 534 to 528 between 1950 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
1950534
2010492
2020528+36 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

103 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Garden City between 1994 and 2019, burning about 932 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use3
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 2007Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Recreation and ceremony3.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission4121 CR 565, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman 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 Garden City: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Rocky MountIronUnknown

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garden City in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindGarden City$1,000,000Two trees were blown down in the Garden city community. One of these trees damaged a house.
April 1998Tornado (F1)Garden City$45,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGarden City$10,000Several trees were blown down near the Fairview West community. One trailer sustained heavy damage and one tree fell onto a house.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindGarden City$5,000Thunderstorm winds damaged chicken houses and barns in the southern parth of Cullman County.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindGarden City$3,000A tree was blown down across the road at the intersection of highway 91 and CR 509.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindGarden City$2,000Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down onto County Roads 509 and 510. At least one tree was also on a power line. Power outages affected approximately 1500 users.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindGarden City$2,000Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down onto County Road 501.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindGarden City$1,000A tree was knocked down blocking the roadway on CR 520.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindGarden City$1,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree across highway 91 near the American Protein Plant.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGarden City$500A tree and power lines were knocked down onto the road along CR 509.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Several trees were knocked down on Roland Johnson Parkway.
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Garden City-A long track tornado crossed the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River (and between Cullman and Blount Counties) multiple times.
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Garden City-A long track tornado crossed the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River (and between Cullman and Blount Counties) multiple times.
June 2010Heavy RainGarden City-A bridge on Roland Johnson Parkway was reported flooded in Garden City.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree across County Road 509.
May 2003Flash FloodGarden City-highway 31 had several inches of water over road.

Every storm recorded in Cullman 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
River Bend2.5 miles19
Fairview West2.9 miles18
Hanceville3.4 miles18
Steppville3.5 miles19
Center Community3.8 miles18
Center Hill5.3 miles19
White City5.6 miles18
Johnsons Crossing5.8 miles18

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 Garden CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q75211The 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 118820. 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.