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Lipscomb, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Birmingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35020. It lies near Jones Valley. The Survey maps it on the Bessemer quadrangle. 2,086 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Lipscomb within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Lipscomb fell from 2,210 to 2,086 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
20102,210
20202,086-124 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

115 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Lipscomb between 1994 and 2018, burning about 806 acres in total. None started naturally. 51 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/incendiarism51
Debris and open burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
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
7 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burning14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission1025 MANOR CIRCLE, AL
29 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Lipscomb: 30 past producers, 5 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone. 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
Alpha Portland Cement Company PlantStonePlant
Dolonah QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shannon PitClayProducer
Birmingham Red Ore Mines DistrictIronPast Producer1864, 1972
IronatonIronUnknown
IronatonIronUnknown
Ishkooda MinesIronPast Producer1863, 1969
Potter No. 1 MineIronPast Producer
Pyne MineIronPast ProducerHematite
Pyne MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lipscomb in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2001: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2000Thunderstorm WindLipscomb1 hurt, $300,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Lipscomb. Sixteen homes were damaged by the trees and 2 were almost totally destroyed. One woman suffered minor injuries when the ceiling rafters fell onto her bed.
June 2001HailLipscomb-Dime size hail fell near Lipscomb.
June 2001HailLipscomb-Dime size hail fell along Interstate 459 and CR 52 near Bessemer.

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
Gordon Heights0.2 miles24
Hudson Grove0.4 miles24
Woodward Junction0.5 miles24
Hudson Gardens0.5 miles24
New Hill0.6 miles24
Woodward Estates0.6 miles24
Broadmoor0.6 miles24
Pauls Hill0.9 miles24

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 LipscombAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79428The 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 152078. 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.