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Millry, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Millry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36558. It stands on Crosbys Creek. The Survey maps it on the Millry North quadrangle. 450 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 105 feet above sea level.

Millry within Washington County

Population over time

2 figures

Millry fell from 546 to 450 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
2010546
2020450-96 (-18%)

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.

Fires near this place

129 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Millry between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,400 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 38 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 burning50
Arson/incendiarism38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Smoking2

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
6 September 2000Natural20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2010Debris and open burning33 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Millry: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Was 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millry in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 13 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 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
April 2005LightningMillry$25,000Lightning struck a home near Millry. The strike caused a fire and part of the home was damaged.
February 1996Thunderstorm WindMillry$15,000no account filed
May 2009Thunderstorm WindMillry$10,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees across Highway 17.
December 2000Thunderstorm WindMillry$10,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Millry. A couple of homes also had some shingles blown from their roofs.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMillry$8,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Millry.
December 2002Tornado (F0)Millry$8,000A weak tornado briefly touched down near Millry. Several trees were blown down and minor roof damage occurred to a building.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindMillry$8,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees just east of Millry.
March 1996Tornado (F0)Millry$5,000no account filed
April 2001Flash FloodMillry$3,000Heavy rains along County Road 34 caused temporary street flooding between Millry and Bigbee. Several dirt roads that run off of County Road 34 had to be closed until the water drained. Radar estimated that four to six inches of rain fell across the area in a three hour period.
March 1999Flash FloodMillry$3,000Slow moving thunderstorms dumped three to five inches of rain across the north parts of Washington county. The heavy rains caused several roads to flood between Millry and Frankville. Several of the streets were closed for a couple of hours because of the high water. Some of the dirt roads that run off of County Road 34 east of Millry were washed out by the rain and had to be repaired.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindMillry$3,000High winds blew trees and power lines down near the community.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindMillry$3,000Several trees were blown down just east of Millry.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindMillry$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down near Millry.
October 1995Thunderstorm WindMillry$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down in the city of Millry.
December 1996Thunderstorm WindMillry$1,500no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindMillry$1,000Several trees were blown down along CR 34 just northeast of Millry.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMillry-High winds downed trees and power lines.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindMillry-High winds downed trees on CR 34 west of Millry and on Mitchel Road north of CR 34 east of Millry.
April 2011HailMillry-Golfball size hail reported in the town of Millry.
April 2001HailMillry-Golfball size hail was reported around Millry. No reports of any damage were received.
March 2000HailMillry-Quarter size hail was reported near Millry
April 1997HailMillry-Nickel size hail was reported along County Road 34 near Chapel Hill in the northwest part of Washington county.
April 2008Flash FloodMillry-no account filed
January 2008Funnel CloudMillry-no account filed
May 2006HailMillry-no account filed
November 2004HailMillry-no account filed
August 2002HailMillry-no account filed
July 2002HailMillry-no account filed
December 1996HailMillry-no account filed
March 1996HailMillry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Healing Springs1.2 miles11
Koenton2.9 miles11
Dunbar3.5 miles11
Loper3.7 miles12
Shady Grove4.1 miles12
Bashi4.5 miles11
Mehaffey4.7 miles13
Barlow4.7 miles12

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 MillryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66587The 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 122846. 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.