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Hytop, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Princeton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35768. It lies near Middle Point. The Survey maps it on the Hytop quadrangle. 441 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,709 feet above sea level.

Hytop within Jackson County

Population over time

3 figures

Hytop grew from 315 to 441 between 2000 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
2000315
2010354+39 (+12%)
2020441+87 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Hytop between 1997 and 2015, burning about 677 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6

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 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarism23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 May 2007Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 May 2007Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 March 2000Arson/incendiarism50 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 March 2000Arson/incendiarism175 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140325-002
24 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140324-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hytop in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2006LightningHytop1 hurtA male was struck by lightning while working on a boat beneath an open air carport at his residence. The person experienced second and third degree burns to his chest. Other specific injury information was unavailable. The person was airlifted to a burn unit in Nashville, Tennessee for treatment.
August 2010Flash FloodHytop$300,000Heavy rainfall of totaling between 3 and 8 inches fell from near Hytop to just west of Stevenson and southward into Scottsboro. The hardest hit areas were in Scottsboro and just to its north, where between 5 and 8 inches of rainfall fell. This caused numerous roads in Scottsboro to be closed or barricaded as early as 6 am CDT. The Scottsboro airport recorded 4.59 inches of rainfall through 7 am CDT. By 740 am CDT, three feet of water was reported covering the Hardee's parking lot on Broad Street in Scottsboro. Two cars drove into a flooded ditch at this location and a walkway over the ditch was washed away.||Heavy rainfall continued in these areas through 9 am, causing extensive flash flooding. By 830 am, significant flash flooding was impacting residences on highway 79. Several water rescues had to be performed at residences near Maple avenue in Scottsboro by 9 am CDT. Additional flash flooding caused by the rainfall caused Dry Creek to overflow and cover a runway at the Scottsboro Airport with 3 to 4 inches of water. At this point 6.68 inches of rain was reported by a secondary weather station at the Scottsboro Airport. This total is suspected to be an underestimate.
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Hytop$165,000A tornado touched down about 0.5 miles northwest of the intersection of Old Mill Creek Road and County Road 243. High resolution satellite imagery in this area indicated multiple trees were uprooted. The tornado continued southeast to just north of the intersection of County Road 243 and Alabama Highway 79. The tornado uprooted and snapped trees at this location, one of which fell on a home causing damage to the roof structure. On the east side of Highway 79, further spotty damage occurred. Here, the tornado uprooted and snapped trees before lifting approximately one third of a mile east of Highway 79.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindHytop$6,000Trees were reported blown down on CR 249 in the Hytop area.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindHytop$5,000A few trees were down in the Hytop area.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHytop$1,000A tree was reported down onto powerlines on highway 79 at CR 245 in the Hytop area. Time was estimated from radar.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHytop$1,000A tree was knocked down. Time estimated based by radar.
December 2025Thunderstorm WindHytop$1,000A tree was reported down at 29756 highway 79.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindHytop$1,000Trees were knocked down onto power lines.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHytop$500A tree was down at CR 33 at CR 245.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindHytop$200A tree was knocked down across Hytop Road in the Hytop area. Time estimated by radar.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindHytop-Structural damage was reported on Hytop Road.
August 2010Heavy RainHytop-The USDA Scan weather station in the Hytop community measured 3.5 inches of rainfall between 1 am and 10 am.
December 2005Thunderstorm WindHytop-POWER OUTAGES OCCURRED DUE TO TREES BLOWN ONTO POWER LINES.
May 2003HailHytop-golf ball hail reported.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Sunset (historical)1.3 miles21
Greerton (historical)1.5 miles21
Jack Lane (historical)1.7 miles21
Narrows (historical)3.1 miles21
Milan (historical)4.2 miles21
Jericho4.3 miles21
Estillfork4.4 miles21
Baileytown5.8 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 HytopAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66495The 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 156510. 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.