Holly Pond, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Holly Pond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35083. It stands on Turkey Hop Branch. The Survey maps it on the Holly Pond quadrangle. 851 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Holly Pond within Cullman County

Population over time

2 figures

Holly Pond grew from 798 to 851 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	798
2020	851	+53 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1888 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1936 USGS Holly Pond quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Holly Pond quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Holly Pond quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

40 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Holly Pond between 1997 and 2017, burning about 205 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NER-20140806-001
5 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	1833 ROSWELL CREEK RD, AL
26 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2005	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman County

Storms near this place

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holly Pond in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 20 thunderstorm wind, 16 hail, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	$1,000,000	A portion of a barn's roof sustained heavy damage and was pealed back in the Holly Pond community.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	$50,000	A downburst struck a small section of Holly Pond. Several trees were knocked down and ten out buildings were damaged.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged a house and barn and destroyed a mobile home just west of Holly Pond. Three-quarter inch hail was reported at Fairview about 10 miles northeast of Cullman.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	$25,000	A few trees were blown down. One tree landed on a house and a car.
February 2026	Hail	Holly Pond	$15,000	Large hail produced roof damage and shattered vehicle lights at 1994 CR 698. Time estimated by radar.
February 2026	Hail	Holly Pond	$10,000	Golf ball sized hail was reported and damaged a vehicle and manufactured home on CR 698 near Holly Pond.
December 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	$8,000	Trees were blown down across CR 695.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	$8,000	Power lines and trees were knocked down by the wind west of Cullman on United States 278. Lightning struck the Cullman County courthouse damaging emergency management and law enforcement radio equipment. Wind destroyed a shed and damaged a barn at Holly Pond on County Road 91.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	$5,000	Damage was reported to farm buildings and trees. Roofing and siding debris was scattered. A horse trailer was flipped.
July 1997	Tornado (F0)	Holly Pond	$5,000	A weak tornado occurred about 4 miles north-northeast of Holly Pond in northeast Cullman County. The weak tornado destroyed one chicken house, damaged another chicken house, tore shingles from a couple of structures, and destroyed three abandoned and decaying chicken houses. The tornado path extended from just west-northwest of the intersection of CR 71 and SR 52 southeastward for about 1 mile.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	$2,000	Trees were knocked down blocking the roadway at the intersection of Lick Creek Road and CR 795.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	$2,000	Severe thunderstorm winds blew down a tree onto a house in the town of Holly Pond.
June 1998	Hail	Holly Pond	$2,000	Hail the size of quarters was reported south of Holly Pond.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	$500	A tree was knocked down near the 100 block of CR 798 west of Holly Pond. Time estimated by radar.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	$500	A tree was knocked down near the 700 block of CR 783 west of Holly Pond. Time estimated by radar.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	$500	Tree down on CR 1728.
February 2026	Hail	Holly Pond	-	Quarter sized hail was reported between Holly Pond and County Line.
April 2025	Hail	Holly Pond	-	Golfball size hail was reported at Holly Pond High School.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	-	Trees were knocked down and power was out in the Walter community. Time estimated by radar.
August 2020	Hail	Holly Pond	-	Nickel sized hail was reported in Holly Pond.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	-	Multiple trees were knocked down blocking U.S. Highway 278 in Holly Pond. Trees were also knocked down at other location in this part of the county.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged a chicken house on CR 1682 just north of CR 1650.
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	-	Damage to awning and roof at the high school at this location. Time estimated by radar.
January 2020	Tornado (EF0)	Holly Pond	-	A tornado touched down in the Holly Pond community near the center of town. The tornado caused minimal tree and roof damage as it quickly moved through the city. Minor roof damage was caused to the old WaterBrook restaurant, also blowing off siding at this location, and wrapping it around a cell phone tower northeast of the restaurant. From there, the tornado skipped northeast, causing minimal roof damage to the southwest corner of Holly Pond High School, where less than 20% of the roof was damaged, and portions of the awning were also damaged.
March 2018	Hail	Holly Pond	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported in Holly Pond.
August 2017	Tornado (EF2)	Holly Pond	-	A tornado developed just south of Holly Pond, Alabama near the intersection of Highway 91 and CR 695 where a couple of trees were uprooted. As the tornado moved northeast it crossed Highway 278 where more trees were snapped and uprooted, and then struck 10 chicken houses. It destroyed nearly all of the chicken houses producing damage consistent with a low end EF-2. Metal roofing from these chicken houses was spread across a large area several hundred yards in width. Additional roof shingle damage \|also occurred to a family residence along with several snapped and uprooted trees just to the northeast of these chicken houses along CR 1728. \|\|As the tornado continued to move northeast more trees were snapped and uprooted before 3 more chicken houses were destroyed on CR 1716. \|\|After proceeding northeast a few miles the tornado strengthened to its maximum intensity snapping and destroying multiple trees and power poles near the intersection of Red Hill Road and CR 1810. \|\|More trees were uprooted and power lines downed further northeast on Harris Road just west of Joppa.
March 2015	Hail	Holly Pond	-	Half dollar sized hail was reported.
March 2015	Hail	Holly Pond	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
October 2010	Hail	Holly Pond	-	Golfball size hail was reported.
July 2010	Hail	Holly Pond	-	Quarter sized was reported in Holly Pond.
April 2007	Hail	Holly Pond	-	This hail was dropped by the same storm that moved across the city of Cullman about 30 minutes earlier. A photograph of this hailstone suggests smaller diameter hailstones had been clumped to form a larger diameter stone.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees along highway 91 about 1 mile south of Holly Pond.
April 2006	Hail	Holly Pond	-	Quarter size hail was reported.
April 2006	Hail	Holly Pond	-	Nickel size hail was reported.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	-	A 12 inch diameter tree was blown down onto a power line.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	-	A 18 inch diameter limb was blown down off a maple tree at a residence.
August 2005	Hail	Holly Pond	-	Penny size hail was reported.
August 2005	Hail	Holly Pond	-	Quarter size hail was reported.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Holly Pond	-	Several power lines were blown down due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2000	Funnel Cloud	Holly Pond	-	A rotating storm moved across northern Cullman County. Storm spotters followed the storm and reported that the storm produced a funnel cloud that came within a few hundred feet of the ground near Holly Pond.

Every storm recorded in Cullman 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Baileytown	2.4 miles	17
New Hope	2.5 miles	17
Union Grove	3.3 miles	19
Brooklyn	3.6 miles	19
North Walter	4.6 miles	17
Walter	5.0 miles	19
Birdsong	5.1 miles	17
Baileyton	6.1 miles	20

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 Holly Pond	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66767	The 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 155103. 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.

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.