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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.

Memphis within Pickens County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Memphis 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.

YearPeople Change
201029
2020290 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

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.

Town of Memphis, Memphis, Pickens County, AL
Town of Memphis, Memphis, Pickens County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Charity House, State Route 32 & County Route 1 vicinity, Memphis, Pickens County, AL
Charity House, State Route 32 & County Route 1 vicinity, Memphis, Pickens County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Charity House, Outbuilding, State Route 32 & County Route 1, Memphis, Pickens County, AL
Charity House, Outbuilding, State Route 32 & County Route 1, Memphis, Pickens County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Charity House, Outhouse, State Route 32 & County Route 1 vicinity, Memphis, Pickens County, AL
Charity House, Outhouse, State Route 32 & County Route 1 vicinity, Memphis, Pickens County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Will Boykin House, State Route 32 & County Route 1 vicinity, Memphis, Pickens County, AL
Will Boykin House, State Route 32 & County Route 1 vicinity, Memphis, Pickens County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

16 since 1995

Regional 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined47 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150923-002
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150919-002
18 September 2015Debris and open burning27 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150918-003
17 September 2015Debris and open burning118 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150917-001
16 September 2015Debris and open burning24 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150916-002
26 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 June 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200624-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2015Thunderstorm WindMemphis-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 2013HailMemphis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pickens 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
Cochrane5.5 miles11
Garden6.2 miles11
McMullen6.5 miles11
Pickensville6.5 miles11
Beaver Town6.6 miles11
Aliceville7.8 miles11
Bridgeville8.5 miles12
Clark8.6 miles11

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 MemphisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67363The 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.