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Goldville, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the New Site census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36256. It stands on Jones Vane Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Site quadrangle. 52 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.

Goldville within Tallapoosa County

Population over time

3 figures

Goldville grew from 37 to 52 between 2000 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
200037
201055+18 (+49%)
202052-3 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

254 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Goldville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 4,176 acres in total. None started naturally. 111 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/incendiarism111
Debris and open burning96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2005Arson/incendiarism39 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180923-2
23 September 2006Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Goldville: 9 past producers, 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Manganese, Sulfides, Titanium. 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
Herzfield ProspectTitaniumOccurrence
Jones PitsGold, SulfidesPast ProducerGold, Pyrite
Lowe MineGold, Iron, ManganesePast Producer1932, 1933
Birdsong PitsGoldOccurrenceGold
Early Pits MineGoldPast ProducerGold
Germany Pits ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Goldville DistrictGoldPast Producer1842
Goldville Pits ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Hawthorne MineGoldPast Producer1932, 1933
Hog Mountain MineGoldPast Producer1839

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goldville in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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
May 2010Flash FloodGoldville$100,000A large area of Tallapoosa County experienced flash flooding due to a period of intense rainfall. The hardest hit area was Alexander City, where street flooding was described as serious, and several water rescues had to be performed. A culvert was washed out on County Road, near US-280 on the west side of Alexander City. Water rescues were also needed in the Hackneyville area, and Dutch Bend Road near the New Site community also became flooded.
March 2021Tornado (EF1)Goldville-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in rural northern Tallapoosa County and determined it was consistent with an EF1 tornado with maximum winds near 95 mph. The tornado first touched down in a remote area just east of Goldville, starting out very narrow but producing significant areas of uprooted trees and a distinct debris signature as it passed over harvested and unharvested forests. The tornado crossed Simpson Road before passing into Clay County.
April 2014FloodGoldville-Three to four inches of rain fell across portions of Tallapoosa County causing area streams to rise, and water to flow out of ditches and across roadways. Many culverts were washed out, damaging many roadways in Alexander City and near New Site. Runoff continued for several hours after the rainfall ended around 8AM CST, and several roads remained temporarily closed. Roads that were severely damaged due to washed out culverts and pipes remained closed for several days while repairs were made. In addition, due to the saturated ground conditions, winds below severe criteria knocked down a couple trees near Reeltown.
January 2012Heavy RainGoldville-As heavy rainfall moved through the area, water covered several roads between New Site and Goldville.
May 2006HailGoldville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Bethleham (historical)2.7 miles11
New Site3.2 miles11
Simpson3.4 miles11
Cowpens3.9 miles11
Harmony (historical)4.2 miles11
Perryville4.4 miles11
Zana (historical)5.1 miles11
Emuckfaw (historical)5.2 miles11

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 GoldvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67532The 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 156414. 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.