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Level Plains, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Daleville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36322. The Survey maps it on the Enterprise quadrangle. 1,825 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 315 feet above sea level.

Level Plains within Dale County

Population over time

2 figures

Level Plains fell from 2,085 to 1,825 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
20102,085
20201,825-260 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Level Plains between 1994 and 2019, burning about 105 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
24 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-5
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 167, AL
22 May 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 March 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 March 1994Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 March 2013Equipment and vehicle use35 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20130316-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dale County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Level Plains: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Dale County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Level Plains in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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
December 1995Thunderstorm WindLevel Plains$20,000Winds overturned a mobile home and damaged several others.
January 2026Thunderstorm WindLevel Plains$3,000Trees and power lines down across Level Plains.
January 2026Thunderstorm WindLevel Plains$3,000Power lines and trees were blown down across the road.
November 2014Thunderstorm WindLevel Plains$3,000Numerous trees were blown down across the county.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLevel Plains$3,000The Dale County 911 call center reported that at least two trees were blown down in Level Plains and power was out in the area. Monetary damage was estimated.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLevel Plains$2,000A tree was blown down onto a power line in the back yard of a residence in Level Plains.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindLevel Plains$2,000Trees were blown down onto power lines on CR 709 near Level Plains near the Dollar General Store.
July 2012LightningLevel Plains$1,000The Dale county 911 call center reported that a house was hit by lightning in Level Plains.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLevel Plains-A tree was blown down on County Road 1 South.
January 2019Thunderstorm WindLevel Plains-The public reported a measured wind gust of 74 mph in Level Plains.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindLevel Plains-Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLevel Plains-A pole was blown down in Level Plains.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLevel Plains-A tree was blown down in Level Plains.
March 2016HailLevel Plains-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dale 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
Gerald2.0 miles12
Country Estates2.8 miles12
Holiday Village2.9 miles12
Daleville3.5 miles13
Munson Heights3.9 miles13
Bowden Terrace4.6 miles13
Clayhatchee5.3 miles12
Allen Heights5.6 miles13

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 Level PlainsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q68454The 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 152024. 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.