Lisman, Alabama
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Lisman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36912. It stands on Horn Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lisman quadrangle. 427 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 164 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLisman fell from 539 to 427 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 539 | |
| 2020 | 427 | -112 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Lisman quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
80 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Lisman between 1994 and 2019, burning about 653 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190921-6 |
| 17 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1999 | Smoking | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20140910-001 |
| 31 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lisman in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Flash Flood | Lisman | $500,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisman | $12,000 | High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Lisman. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisman | $5,000 | High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Lisman. |
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lisman | - | High winds downed trees and power lines along Highway 17. One home was damaged in Lisman when a tree fell on the home. |
| July 1997 | Flash Flood | Lisman | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riderwood | 3.7 miles | 8 | |
| Pushmataha | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Cromwell | 4.2 miles | 8 | |
| Mollie | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Little Walker | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Green Acres | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Butler | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Chapel Hill | 7.0 miles | 9 |
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 Lisman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q67671 | The 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 121683. 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.




