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Lockhart, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Florala census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36455. The Survey maps it on the Florala quadrangle. 445 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 289 feet above sea level.

Lockhart within Covington County

Population over time

2 figures

Lockhart fell from 516 to 445 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
2010516
2020445-71 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Lockhart between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,892 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 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 burning37
Arson/incendiarism33
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3

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 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Service66/PERKINS ROAD
30 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism589 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-5
22 September 2019Smoking10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCO HWY 147 (66)
22 September 1999Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2002Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington 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 Lockhart: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
White Construction Company, Inc. - Pleasant Grove MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Covington County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lockhart in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
July 2005Tornado (F0)Lockhart$15,000A tornado that had developed in Okaloosa county moved into Covington county from the south. The tornado tracked to just west of Lockhart before dissipating. Trees and power lines were blown down along the track of the tornado.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindLockhart$5,000Winds estimated at 60mph downed trees in Lockart.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindLockhart$5,000Several trees were blown down in the Lockhart area. A couple of awnings were picked up by the winds and blown from carports.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindLockhart$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down near Lockhart.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLockhart-Trees down on County Rd 4 near Florala. Time estimated on radar.
March 2003HailLockhart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Covington 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
Florala1.2 miles8
Stedman4.9 miles8
McRae5.7 miles8
Huckaville5.9 miles7
Chapel Hill6.4 miles7
Howells8.0 miles7
Shiloh10.2 miles7
Red Oak10.7 miles7

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 LockhartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67615The 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 121944. 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.