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.
Population over time
3 figuresHytop 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 315 | |
| 2010 | 354 | +39 (+12%) |
| 2020 | 441 | +87 (+25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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 Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1936 USGS Hytop quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Hytop quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Hytop quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 1997Regional 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/incendiarism | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 23 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 May 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 May 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 March 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 March 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 175 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NOR-20140325-002 |
| 24 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NOR-20140324-005 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2006 | Lightning | Hytop | 1 hurt | A 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 2010 | Flash Flood | Hytop | $300,000 | Heavy 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 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Hytop | $165,000 | A 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hytop | $6,000 | Trees were reported blown down on CR 249 in the Hytop area. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hytop | $5,000 | A few trees were down in the Hytop area. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hytop | $1,000 | A tree was reported down onto powerlines on highway 79 at CR 245 in the Hytop area. Time was estimated from radar. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hytop | $1,000 | A tree was knocked down. Time estimated based by radar. |
| December 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hytop | $1,000 | A tree was reported down at 29756 highway 79. |
| January 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hytop | $1,000 | Trees were knocked down onto power lines. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hytop | $500 | A tree was down at CR 33 at CR 245. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hytop | $200 | A tree was knocked down across Hytop Road in the Hytop area. Time estimated by radar. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hytop | - | Structural damage was reported on Hytop Road. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Hytop | - | The USDA Scan weather station in the Hytop community measured 3.5 inches of rainfall between 1 am and 10 am. |
| December 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hytop | - | POWER OUTAGES OCCURRED DUE TO TREES BLOWN ONTO POWER LINES. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Hytop | - | golf ball hail reported. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunset (historical) | 1.3 miles | 21 | |
| Greerton (historical) | 1.5 miles | 21 | |
| Jack Lane (historical) | 1.7 miles | 21 | |
| Narrows (historical) | 3.1 miles | 21 | |
| Milan (historical) | 4.2 miles | 21 | |
| Jericho | 4.3 miles | 21 | |
| Estillfork | 4.4 miles | 21 | |
| Baileytown | 5.8 miles | 22 |
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 Hytop | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q66495 | 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 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.









