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Ladonia, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Phenix City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36869. The Survey maps it on the Phenix City quadrangle. 3,074 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Ladonia within Russell County

Population over time

2 figures

Ladonia fell from 3,142 to 3,074 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
20103,142
20203,074-68 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

132 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Ladonia between 1994 and 2018, burning about 624 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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 burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism18
Recreation and ceremony17
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Natural1
Other causes1

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
8 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance11 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160906-1
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20150905-001
29 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission2406 SANDFORT RD., AL
10 September 2002Debris and open burning58 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140901-002
1 September 1995Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ladonia: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bussey PitClayProducer
Ditch & Trenching Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Phenix City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Uchee MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Russell County

Storms near this place

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ladonia in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
April 2009Tornado (EF1)Ladonia2 hurt, $120,000The tornado touched down near the Phenix City Drag Strip, along CR-28. Most of the damage from the tornado was at a mobile home park, where two minor injuries occurred. A couple dozen trees were snapped and uprooted in the area.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLadonia$26,000Several trees were blown down near Ladonia. Some of the fallen trees landed on a church causing damage.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLadonia$10,000The canopies of a service station and a bank drive-through, on US-80 in Ladonia, were heavily damaged. Several trees and power lines were also blown down in the same area.
November 1997Thunderstorm WindLadonia$7,000Trees were downed along US 431 in the northern part of the county.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindLadonia$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Ladonia.
March 2007Tornado (EF0)Ladonia$3,000The tornado touched down near the Russell-Lee County line, on the northwest side of Phenix City. Damage near the touchdown point in Russell County was very light with only minor tree damage.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLadonia$2,000A tree was blown down and landed on a garage.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLadonia$2,000Trees were reported down along Massey Drive off of U.S. Hwy 80.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLadonia$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down on Faye Drive, near the Ladonia community.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLadonia$2,000Trees were blown down on Pine Ridge Trail, near Phenix City.
April 2005HailLadonia$1,000Penny to nickel size hail was reported along US 80 from near the Hugley community eastward to PhenixCity.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLadonia$750A large tree was blown down onto CR-208, near US-80.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLadonia$500An awning was blown off a car wash building along US-80 in the Ladonia community.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLadonia-Multiple trees were blown down, and multiple homes and a few trees were damaged along U.S. Highway 80.
October 2021Flash FloodLadonia-Extensive flooding in Phenix City with several roads flooded and impassable.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindLadonia-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in the town of Ladonia.
February 2019Thunderstorm WindLadonia-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed between County Line Road and Opelika Road.
July 2018HailLadonia-Golf ball sized hail and winds estimated near 60 mph in the town of Ladonia.
May 2018Flash FloodLadonia-Bridges on Lakewood Drive Road and Bridgewater Drive Road were over-topped with water along Holland Creek due to excessive rainfall upstream. Several roads flooded and impassable in the northern portions of Phenix City.
April 2017HailLadonia-Golf ball size hail on Auburn Road.
July 2017Flash FloodLadonia-Several roads flooded in and around the Phenix City area.
September 2009Flash FloodLadonia-Water was flowing over the bridge at Opelika Road and Cutrate Road, in Phenix City.
April 2017HailLadonia-no account filed
July 2011HailLadonia-no account filed
June 2010HailLadonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Russell 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
Greenbrier3.2 miles22
Rolling Hills3.3 miles22
Lakewood Heights3.4 miles22
Carriage Hill3.7 miles14
Kaolin4.0 miles22
Girard4.0 miles22
Phenix City4.2 miles22
Fontaine Village4.6 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 LadoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q692429The 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 121309. 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.