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Kimberly, Alabama

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Kimberly-Morris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35091. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Warrior quadrangle. 3,841 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Kimberly within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Kimberly grew from 2,711 to 3,841 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
20102,711
20203,841+1,130 (+42%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

165 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Kimberly between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,290 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 50 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 burning62
Arson/incendiarism50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
9 September 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kimberly in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
November 2003Thunderstorm WindKimberly$3,000Trees were blown down in Kimberly. EMA
April 2021HailKimberly-Quarter size hail reported in the towns of Kimberly and Morris.
February 2019HailKimberly-Nickel size hail near the town of Kimberly.
April 2016HailKimberly-Quarter size hail in the town of Kimberly.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindKimberly-Trees were reported down along Bill Jones Road. The tin roof of a vacant manufactured home was also removed.
April 2011Heavy RainKimberly-Measured rainfall of 2.3 inches led to minor flooding on Highway 31 between Morris and Kimberly.
June 2001HailKimberly-Dime size hail was reported in Kimberly.
June 2008HailKimberly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Country Haven0.7 miles26
Morris1.8 miles27
Seloca1.8 miles26
Cherokee Estates2.0 miles26
Parker Hudson Estates2.1 miles26
Beltona2.5 miles26
Warrior2.8 miles26
Majestic3.3 miles27

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 KimberlyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65999The 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 151954. 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.