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Lawley, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Centreville-Brent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36793. It stands on Little Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maplesville West quadrangle. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Lawley within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

72 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Lawley between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,646 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190925-10
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lawley: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kyanite, Clay. 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
Bib 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Brand ProspectKyaniteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bibb County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawley in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado. 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
March 2000Tornado (F0)Lawley$25,000no account filed
December 2011Tornado (EF0)Lawley$15,000National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Bibb County and assessed damage that was consistent with a tornado. An EF-0 tornado with winds of 70 to 80 mph briefly touched down between Lawley and Randolph in southeast Bibb County. Damage along the beginning of the path was only 50 yards wide. This was along Hwy 82, where only large limbs were broken. The tornado then lifted just east of County Road 36. Here, the damage was 150 yards wide with numerous trees uprooted and snapped.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindLawley$10,000Numerous trees were blown down across the southern portion of Bibb County, and many roadways were blocked as a result.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindLawley$10,000Trees were blown down near Lawley Post Office. A tree was blown down on a house on Oakley Station Road.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindLawley$10,000no account filed
September 1996HailLawley$8,000no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindLawley$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down on US 82 in Lawley.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindLawley$2,000Several trees and power lines were blown down near US 82 along the Bibb and Chilton County line.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindLawley-Trees were downed in the Lawley area.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLawley-Trees and powerlines were reported down in the Randolph and Lawley communities.
February 1998HailLawley-Dime size hail was reported covering the ground in Lawley.

Every storm recorded in Bibb 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
Active1.5 miles16
Sand Mountain2.1 miles16
Maud2.1 miles16
Tabernacle2.6 miles11
Tucker3.1 miles16
Randolph3.5 miles16
Cox3.6 miles16
Trio5.3 miles11

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 LawleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6503637The 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 159915. 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.