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Hissop, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Rockford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35089. The Survey maps it on the Rockford quadrangle. 209 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Hissop within Coosa County

Population over time

2 figures

Hissop fell from 658 to 209 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
2010658
2020209-449 (-68%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

101 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Hissop between 1994 and 2020, burning about 882 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 27 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 burning47
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140924-001
23 September 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.8 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-21

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Hissop: 14 past producers, 13 occurrences, 9 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Gold, Silver, Aluminum. 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
Coosa Gibbsite ProspectAluminumProspect1960
Number One MineFeldspar, Graphite, Tin, MicaPast Producer1941
Number Seven MineFeldspar, Mica, TinPast Producer1941
Number Two MineFeldspar, Graphite, Mica, TinPast Producer1941
Prospect Number FiveTantalum, Feldspar, Mica, TinProspect
Prospect Number Twenty-SixMica, TinOccurrence
Thomas ProspectMicaProspect
USGS MR-60 Alabama No.4 ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Rockford MineGold, SilverPast ProducerGold, Silver
Rockford MineGold, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coosa County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hissop in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2009Thunderstorm WindHissop$5,000Large trees were blown down and blocked CR-40. A power line was snapped in half, and a high voltage transformer was on the ground.

Every storm recorded in Coosa 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
Cottage Grove3.0 miles14
Rockford3.5 miles14
Crewsville3.6 miles14
Keyno3.9 miles14
Pinthlocco (historical)4.8 miles14
Nixburg5.0 miles14
Ray6.1 miles14
Jon6.5 miles14

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 HissopAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1262256The 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 120154. 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.