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Gordonville, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mosses census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36040. It stands on Halls Branch. The Survey maps it on the Gordonsville quadrangle. 245 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 210 feet above sea level.

Gordonville within Lowndes County

Population over time

2 figures

Gordonville fell from 326 to 245 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
2010326
2020245-81 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

88 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Gordonville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,074 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Smoking12
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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
5 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-3
22 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120922-001
11 September 2007Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2004Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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
Gordonsville1.2 miles9
Mosses2.8 miles9
Beechwood3.6 miles9
Collirene6.0 miles11
Hicks Hill6.3 miles9
Mount Willing6.4 miles9
Lum6.9 miles9
Hayneville7.5 miles9

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 GordonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q68349The 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 2407582. 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.