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Hammondville, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Valley Head-Mentone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35989. It stands on Thomas Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dugout Valley quadrangle. 425 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Hammondville within DeKalb County

On record in Hammondville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Hammondville fell from 488 to 425 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
2010488
2020425-63 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

237 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Hammondville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,710 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 118 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/incendiarism118
Debris and open burning61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20120924-001
24 September 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160921-2
20 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 759, VALLEY HEAD ALABAMA, AL
20 September 2000Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-16

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Hammondville: 7 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Clay, Water, Free. 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
Consolidated #2Aluminum, Water, FreePast ProducerSurface
Dek 5 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Unnamed ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Clyde Hulgen Iron PropertyIronOccurrence
Jesse Manning ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hammondville in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHammondville3 hurt, $500Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree on hwy 40 and county road 117. Reports indicate that multiple vehicles struck the downed tree with injuries sustained.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindHammondville$5,000A tree was downed by thunderstorm winds at the intersection of County road 236 and County road 101, near Hammondville.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Hammondville$5,000several trees uprooted and snapped along with one home having minor roof damage.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHammondville$1,000A tree was downed by thunderstorm winds near the intersection of U.S. 11 and county road 239, just north of Hammondville, Alabama.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHammondville$1,000A severe thunderstorm moved northwest to southeast across southern portions of Hammondville, resulting in several trees downed and numerous power outages along County Roads 608, 751, and 752.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHammondville$500A tree and power lines were knocked down onto Highway 40.
June 2011HailHammondville-Quarter size hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Valley Head1.1 miles22
Mentone1.9 miles22
Council Bluff2.5 miles22
Riverdale2.9 miles22
Mays Gulf (historical)3.2 miles22
Cordell (historical)3.9 miles22
Kaolin4.0 miles23
New Home4.1 miles22

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 HammondvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66640The 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 150276. 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.