Minor, Alabama
28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Birmingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35224. It stands on Second Creek. The Survey maps it on the Adamsville quadrangle. 1,088 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 581 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMinor fell from 1,094 to 1,088 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 | 1,094 | |
| 2020 | 1,088 | -6 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 28 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.
- 1889 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1904 USGS Birmingham Coal District quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Birmingham Coal District quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1906 USGS Birmingham Special quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Adamsville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Adamsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Adamsville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
194 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Minor between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,983 acres in total. None started naturally. 83 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/incendiarism | 83 |
| Debris and open burning | 50 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160909-14 |
| 6 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160929-27 |
| 29 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2016 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160928-8 |
| 26 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190926-16 |
| 23 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NER-20150923-001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Minor: 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Thomas Quarry & Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Watkins Number 1 Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| U S Steel/ Fairfield, Ala. | Iron | Plant | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
3 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minor in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2006: 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Minor | - | Reported on Birmingport Road, moving towards Minor. |
| March 1994 | Hail | Minor | - | Hail reported in western Birmingham at the Birmingham State Trooper Post on U.S. Highway 78. ~ Fultondale,27,1640CST,,,?,?,?,?,Hail (1.75) Airport,27,1644CST,,,?,?,?,?,Hail (0.75) Tarrant,27,1644CST,,,?,?,?,?,Hail (1.00) Near Pinson,27,1645CST,,,?,?,?,?,Funnel Cloud Pinson,27,1645CST,,,?,?,?,?,Hail (1.75) Centerpoint,27,1647CST,,,?,?,?,?,Hail (1.75) Birmingham,27,1651CST,,,?,?,?,?,Hail (0.75) Three-quarter-inch hail reported at Medical Center East in Birmingham. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Minor | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Ensley | 1.0 miles | 28 | |
| Edgewater Junction | 1.1 miles | 28 | |
| McDonald Chapel | 1.1 miles | 28 | |
| Edgewater | 1.2 miles | 28 | |
| Docena | 1.6 miles | 28 | |
| Hobson | 2.0 miles | 28 | |
| Mulga | 2.0 miles | 28 | |
| Oakwood | 2.1 miles | 28 |
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 Minor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1289225 | 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 122875. 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.













