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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.

Lisman within Choctaw County

Population over time

2 figures

Lisman 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.

YearPeople Change
2010539
2020427-112 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

80 since 1994

Regional 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-6
17 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Smoking15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140910-001
31 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Flash FloodLisman$500,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLisman$12,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Lisman.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLisman$5,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Lisman.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindLisman-High winds downed trees and power lines along Highway 17. One home was damaged in Lisman when a tree fell on the home.
July 1997Flash FloodLisman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Choctaw 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
Riderwood3.7 miles8
Pushmataha4.1 miles8
Cromwell4.2 miles8
Mollie5.1 miles8
Little Walker5.7 miles9
Green Acres5.9 miles9
Butler6.3 miles9
Chapel Hill7.0 miles9

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 LismanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67671The 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.