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Glenwood, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Luverne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36034. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glenwood quadrangle. 152 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 282 feet above sea level.

Glenwood within Crenshaw County

Population over time

2 figures

Glenwood fell from 187 to 152 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
2010187
2020152-35 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

58 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Glenwood between 1994 and 2018, burning about 227 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
14 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Debris and open burning1.8 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150810-003
6 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use14 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150622-001
17 June 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 June 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crenshaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Glenwood: 22 unknowns, 19 past producers, 5 prospects, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Cre 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Felix Horn ProspectIronProspect
J S Layton ProspectIronProspect
Joe West ProspectIronProspect
O D Warren ProspectIronProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Crenshaw County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenwood in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
September 1998Tornado (F1)Glenwood$50,000A tornado moving northwest out of western Pike County, moved through the community of Glenwood and lifted back into the cloud just northwest of Glenwood. The tornado destroyed a trailer and damaged several other homes. Trees and power lines were also blown down. No injuries were reported.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindGlenwood$10,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed large limbs on County Road 6 between Luverne and Glenwood. Power was knocked out in Luverne.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindGlenwood$8,000no account filed
January 1997Thunderstorm WindGlenwood$1,500no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-High winds downed numerous trees with one on a house.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-High winds downed a tree near the intersection of Glenwood Road and New Hope Church.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGlenwood-Strong winds downed trees and power lines along and north of Goshen Road.

Every storm recorded in Crenshaw 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
Carmen2.4 miles8
Social Town3.3 miles8
Shirleys Crossroads3.5 miles8
Vidette4.9 miles8
Peacock (historical)5.1 miles7
Luverne6.1 miles7
Brantley7.3 miles7
Joquin8.4 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 GlenwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66896The 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 119046. 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.