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Marbury, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Marbury census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36051. The Survey maps it on the Marbury quadrangle. 1,427 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 522 feet above sea level.

Marbury within Autauga County

Population over time

2 figures

Marbury grew from 1,418 to 1,427 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
20101,418
20201,427+9 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

304 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 304 fires within 5 miles of Marbury between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,642 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 47 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 burning121
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Arson/incendiarism47
Equipment and vehicle use19
Recreation and ceremony16
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes1

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 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140906-001
5 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Recreation and ceremony3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Autauga County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Marbury: 15 unknowns, 7 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Graphite, Mica. 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
Bama Or Flaketown MineGraphite, MicaPast ProducerGraphite, Muscovite, Roscoelite
Bama Graphite MineGraphitePast Producer
Unnamed Gold Placer ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
William Howard PropertyGoldOccurrenceGold
Bama PitIronUnknown
BoothIronUnknown
Boyd PitIronPast ProducerSurface
Boyd PitIronUnknown
Davis PitIronUnknown
Dean PitIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Autauga County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marbury in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
November 2002Thunderstorm WindMarbury$75,000Based on the pattern of damage, and reports from witnesses, the damage near the Marbury community in northeastern Autauga County was assessed as being caused by straight line winds. The damage area begins near the intersection of County Roads 68 and 69, just west of Interstate 65, and continues in a fan-shaped pattern eastward about 1.5 miles across US Highway 31. The damage area was about 400 yards wide, at its widest point.A total of 5 homes, 2 travel trailers, 1 barn, and one vehicle sustained damage. Also, powerlines were down across the entire damage area. There were no injuries reported. Based on witness accounts and radar signatures, the damage occurred around 2 AM Monday morning.
April 2003HailMarbury$60,000Golf ball size hail fell across extreme northeast Autauga County.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMarbury$25,000A rotten tree fell onto a home as the result of thunderstorm outflow.
April 2005HailMarbury$20,000Hail up to the size of softballs fell across extreme northeast Autauga County near Marbury.
May 2009Tornado (EF0)Marbury$10,000The weak tornado touched down briefly just south of CR-20 and traveled to the northwest for about a third of a mile before it lifted. Damage along the path included 4 hardwood trees uprooted and 1 softwood tree snapped, and minor roof damage to an outbuilding.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindMarbury$7,000A roof was torn off a pre-fab building in the northeast part of the county.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMarbury$3,000Trees down along US highway 31 and CR 68 near Marbury.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMarbury$2,000A few trees and power lines were blown down around the Marbury area, some of which blocked roadways.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindMarbury$1,000Windows were broken out of a house.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMarbury$1,000A few trees were knocked down near Marbury.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindMarbury-Several trees uprooted along I-65 at mile marker 197.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindMarbury-A few trees uprooted along County Road 20.
April 2012HailMarbury-no account filed
June 2009HailMarbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Autauga 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
Pyron1.2 miles15
Wadsworth2.1 miles15
Rollins3.2 miles15
Pine Flat3.9 miles15
New Prospect4.4 miles17
Wilder Hill (historical)4.8 miles15
Oak Grove6.7 miles18
White City7.7 miles17

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 MarburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1285382The 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 152222. 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.