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Graham, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Woodland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36263. It stands on Knight Branch. The Survey maps it on the Graham quadrangle. 196 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.

Graham within Randolph County

Population over time

2 figures

Graham fell from 211 to 196 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
2010211
2020196-15 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Graham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 920 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 41 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 burning56
Arson/incendiarism41
Recreation and ceremony19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2018Debris and open burning3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019CARROLL003
16 September 2019Debris and open burning3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-15
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2011Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HEARD-005
21 August 2001Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-CARROLL-003
20 August 2007Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Graham: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Gold Ridge MineGoldPast Producer1908
Gold Ridge MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Gold Ridge MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graham in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 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
December 2011Tornado (EF0)Graham$25,000After a review of damage, eye witness accounts, and analysis of Dual-Pol radar data from KFFC, it was determined that damage in northeastern Randolph county was a result of a brief EF-0 tornado. The EF-0 tornado with winds of 70 mph briefly touched down near Sewell, along County Road 87, south of County Road 438. One home and half a dozen outbuildings sustained roof damage, as metal roofing was peeled off and tossed up to one half mile downwind. Minor tree damage was also noted. Two witnesses reported a funnel cloud in the area, but due to terrain were unable to confirm whether the circulation extended to the ground.
March 1999Thunderstorm WindGraham$25,000A house under construction was damaged on CR 455 just north of Sewell. The home had all its windows broken out, the front porch torn off, damage to the siding, and roof damage. A barn on the property was totally destroyed. Just north of the Bethel East Baptist Church on CR 87, a mobile home was pushed off its foundation, several trees were blown down, and one barn destroyed and one heavily damaged.
February 2000LightningGraham$10,000no account filed
February 2000Thunderstorm WindGraham$2,000no account filed
September 2009Heavy RainGraham$1,000A portion of AL-48 near the state line had to be closed due to a partially blocked culvert causing rain water to run over the road.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindGraham-Trees were blown down on SR 48 near the Georgia state line.
February 1998HailGraham-Dime size hail was reported in Graham.

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Kaylor1.7 miles13
Hawk3.0 miles13
Butlers Mill3.2 miles12
Gold Ridge4.1 miles12
Lofty4.2 miles12
Sewell4.7 miles13
Pine Hill4.8 miles12
Providence4.9 miles13

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 GrahamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1275030The 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 119207. 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.