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.
Population over time
3 figuresGarden 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 534 | |
| 2010 | 492 | |
| 2020 | 528 | +36 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1888 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Garden City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Garden City quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
103 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 52 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 26 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.2 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 4121 CR 565, AL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Mount | Iron | Unknown |
Storms near this place
16 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $1,000,000 | Two trees were blown down in the Garden city community. One of these trees damaged a house. |
| April 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Garden City | $45,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down near the Fairview West community. One trailer sustained heavy damage and one tree fell onto a house. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged chicken houses and barns in the southern parth of Cullman County. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $3,000 | A tree was blown down across the road at the intersection of highway 91 and CR 509. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $2,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down onto County Road 501. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $1,000 | A tree was knocked down blocking the roadway on CR 520. |
| December 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree across highway 91 near the American Protein Plant. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $500 | A tree and power lines were knocked down onto the road along CR 509. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | Several trees were knocked down on Roland Johnson Parkway. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (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 2011 | Tornado (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 2010 | Heavy Rain | Garden City | - | A bridge on Roland Johnson Parkway was reported flooded in Garden City. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree across County Road 509. |
| May 2003 | Flash Flood | Garden City | - | highway 31 had several inches of water over road. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| River Bend | 2.5 miles | 19 | |
| Fairview West | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| Hanceville | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Steppville | 3.5 miles | 19 | |
| Center Community | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Center Hill | 5.3 miles | 19 | |
| White City | 5.6 miles | 18 | |
| Johnsons Crossing | 5.8 miles | 18 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q75211 | The 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.








