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.
Population over time
2 figuresMillry 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 546 | |
| 2020 | 450 | -96 (-18%) |
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 Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Millry North quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Waynesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
129 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 50 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 38 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2000 | Natural | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 33 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Was 2 Clay Prospect | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
30 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2005 | Lightning | Millry | $25,000 | Lightning struck a home near Millry. The strike caused a fire and part of the home was damaged. |
| February 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millry | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millry | $10,000 | Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees across Highway 17. |
| December 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millry | $10,000 | High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Millry. A couple of homes also had some shingles blown from their roofs. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millry | $8,000 | High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Millry. |
| December 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Millry | $8,000 | A weak tornado briefly touched down near Millry. Several trees were blown down and minor roof damage occurred to a building. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millry | $8,000 | High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees just east of Millry. |
| March 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Millry | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Flash Flood | Millry | $3,000 | Heavy 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 1999 | Flash Flood | Millry | $3,000 | Slow 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millry | $3,000 | High winds blew trees and power lines down near the community. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millry | $3,000 | Several trees were blown down just east of Millry. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millry | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down near Millry. |
| October 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millry | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down in the city of Millry. |
| December 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millry | $1,500 | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millry | $1,000 | Several trees were blown down along CR 34 just northeast of Millry. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millry | - | High winds downed trees and power lines. |
| April 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Millry | - | High winds downed trees on CR 34 west of Millry and on Mitchel Road north of CR 34 east of Millry. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Millry | - | Golfball size hail reported in the town of Millry. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Millry | - | Golfball size hail was reported around Millry. No reports of any damage were received. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Millry | - | Quarter size hail was reported near Millry |
| April 1997 | Hail | Millry | - | Nickel size hail was reported along County Road 34 near Chapel Hill in the northwest part of Washington county. |
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Millry | - | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Millry | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Millry | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Hail | Millry | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Millry | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Millry | - | no account filed |
| December 1996 | Hail | Millry | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Millry | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healing Springs | 1.2 miles | 11 | |
| Koenton | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Dunbar | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Loper | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Shady Grove | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Bashi | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Mehaffey | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Barlow | 4.7 miles | 12 |
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 Millry | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q66587 | 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 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.




