Memphis, Alabama
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Aliceville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35442. It stands on Wallace Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pickensville quadrangle. 29 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 167 feet above sea level.
On record in Memphis
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 5 records
- Charity House, Outbuilding, State Route 32 & County Route 1, Memphisfederal building survey, 1 photograph
- Charity House, Outhouse, State Route 32 & County Route 1 vicinity, Memphisfederal building survey, 1 photograph
- Charity House, State Route 32 & County Route 1 vicinity, Memphisfederal building survey, 8 photographs
- Town of Memphis, Memphisfederal building survey, 7 photographs
- Will Boykin House, State Route 32 & County Route 1 vicinity, Memphisfederal building survey, 8 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresMemphis grew from 29 to 29 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 | 29 | |
| 2020 | 29 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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 West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Pickensville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
Photographs
5 photographs,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
16 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Memphis between 1995 and 2020, burning about 377 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20150923-002 |
| 19 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20150919-002 |
| 18 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 27 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20150918-003 |
| 17 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 118 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20150917-001 |
| 16 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 24 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20150916-002 |
| 26 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 June 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 June 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20200624-1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Memphis in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Memphis | - | Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped along a path beginning along County Road 78 northwest of the town of Aliceville, and ending at Franconia Road. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Memphis | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cochrane | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Garden | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| McMullen | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Pickensville | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Beaver Town | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Aliceville | 7.8 miles | 11 | |
| Bridgeville | 8.5 miles | 12 | |
| Clark | 8.6 miles | 11 |
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 Memphis | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q67363 | 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 122652. 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.




