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Louisville, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Louisville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36048. The Survey maps it on the Louisville quadrangle. 395 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 551 feet above sea level.

Louisville within Barbour County

Population over time

2 figures

Louisville fell from 519 to 395 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
2010519
2020395-124 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

47 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Louisville between 1994 and 2017, burning about 227 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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 burning20
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
22 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20170922-1
21 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2000Natural9.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2000Natural3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barbour County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 97 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 97 workings within 5 miles of Louisville: 33 prospects, 33 past producers, 28 unknowns, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Bar 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Bar 16 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Bar 17 Clay ProspectClayProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Barbour County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louisville in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
March 2005HailLouisville$35,000no account filed
April 2003HailLouisville$8,000A severe thunderstorm dumped a swath of large hail over a 15 mile area in Barbour County. The hail fell from near Louisville to near Bakerhill with the largest pieces as big as half dollars.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindLouisville$6,000Several trees were blown down and one barn was destroyed in Louisville.
March 2005Thunderstorm WindLouisville$6,000no account filed
April 1998HailLouisville$4,000Golf ball size hail was reported in the Louisville area, reported by the state trooper post.
January 2002Thunderstorm WindLouisville$2,000Trees and power lines were knocked down in and around Louisville.
April 2005HailLouisville$1,000Quarter size hail fell across southern Barbour County from near Louisville to near Texasville.
September 2020Flash FloodLouisville-Heavy rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Sally produced rainfall amounts of 9-12 inches across Barbour County, resulting in numerous flooded roadways, mainly across the southern portion of the county. A car was swept in river when a bridge washed out along Jack Hightower Road. No injuries reported.
March 2005HailLouisville-Penny size hail was reported near the intersection of CR 44 and CR 9 in northwestern Barbour County.
May 2002HailLouisville-Dime size hail was reported on CR 33 near Louisville. Dime size hail was also observed in the Edgefield area.

Every storm recorded in Barbour 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
Baxters2.2 miles7
Hobdy2.5 miles7
Pratts4.1 miles7
Lindsey4.9 miles7
Tyler Crossroads5.8 miles8
Clio5.9 miles8
Greens Crossroads7.4 miles7
Boot Hill7.9 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 LouisvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67924The 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 122049. 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.