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Hollins, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Millerville-Hollins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35072. The Survey maps it on the Hollins quadrangle. 517 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 827 feet above sea level.

Hollins within Clay County

Population over time

2 figures

Hollins fell from 545 to 517 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
2010545
2020517-28 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

164 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Hollins between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,130 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 56 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 burning59
Arson/incendiarism56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural9
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2

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
19 September 2010Natural2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2007Natural190 acresNational Forests in AlabamaROCKY TOWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Hollins: 6 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Graphite, Mica, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron. 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
Ceylon Graphite MineGraphite, Vanadium, MicaPast Producer1916
Gantts Number 4 QuarryMarble, DimensionProducer
Miller MineGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Old and New QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hertzfield MineMicaPast Producer
USGS MR-60 Alabama No.6 ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
USGS MR-60 Alabama No.7 ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Ceylon GraphiteGraphitePast Producer1865, 1916

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hollins in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 1996Thunderstorm WindHollins$10,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindHollins$5,000Numerous trees were blown down in and around the city of Hollins. Trees were also reported down in the Ashland area.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindHollins$2,000Several trees were downed.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindHollins$2,000A few trees were knocked down in the Hollins area.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHollins$1,000Trees were blown down and blocked Chapman Road, in the Hollins community.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindHollins-A church and a house suffered minor roof damage due to high winds.
May 2001HailHollins-Nickel size hail was reported in Hollins.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Skeggs Crossroads1.7 miles23
East Mill4.9 miles23
Brownsville5.2 miles23
Roselle6.9 miles23
Shady Grove8.1 miles23
Cleveland Crossroads8.3 miles12
Pinkneyville9.8 miles12
Hatchet Creek10.2 miles23

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 HollinsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1273426The 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 159790. 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.