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Mentone, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Valley Head-Mentone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35984. It lies near Little Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Valley Head quadrangle. 319 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,736 feet above sea level.

Mentone within DeKalb County

On record in Mentone

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Mentone fell from 360 to 319 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
2010360
2020319-41 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

267 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Mentone between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,798 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 141 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
Arson/incendiarism141
Debris and open burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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
24 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20120924-001
24 September 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160921-2
20 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 759, VALLEY HEAD ALABAMA, AL
20 September 2000Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150918-002
18 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mentone: 4 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Clyde Hulgen Iron PropertyIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Valley Head AreaIronPast ProducerHematite

Every working recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mentone in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2015: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMentone$20,000A roof of a building was slightly damaged, two older greenhouses were destroyed and several trees were downed by thunderstorm winds just northeast of Mentone, Alabama, along County roads 639, 641 and Alabama Highway 117.
April 2006HailMentone$20,000Golf ball size hail was reported. The hail produced slight to moderate damage to five cars and two homes.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMentone$1,000A few trees were knocked down in and around the city of Mentone.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMentone-A few trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
April 2012HailMentone-Quarter sized hail was reported.
July 2007Heavy RainMentone-A 30 minute rainfall of 3.25 inches was reported.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMentone-Trees were blown down along DeSoto Parkway.
June 2007LightningMentone-A local animal park reported that at least nine cows were struck by lightning and killed on Lookout Mountain near Mentone. Time and location estimated.
April 2006HailMentone-Nickel size hail was reported.
May 2006HailMentone-Quarter sized hail reported on County Road 89 near Mentone.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMentone-A tree was blown down on County Road 89.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindMentone-A tree was blown down at Sequoyah Caverns.
June 2003Flash FloodMentone-several inches of water over road.
April 2002HailMentone-Quarter size hail was observed in Mentone.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Riverdale1.4 miles22
Valley Head1.5 miles22
Hammondville1.9 miles22
Bankhead2.4 miles22
Kaolin3.3 miles23
Cordell (historical)4.2 miles22
Council Bluff4.4 miles22
Mays Gulf (historical)5.0 miles22

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 MentoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67974The 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 150377. 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.