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Moundville, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Moundville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35474. It stands on Wiggins Branch. The Survey maps it on the Moundville West quadrangle. 3,024 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 162 feet above sea level.

Moundville within Hale County

On record in Moundville

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 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

4 figures

Moundville grew from 253 to 3,024 between 1910 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
1910253
20001,809
20102,427+618 (+34%)
20203,024+597 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

134 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Moundville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 446 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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 burning59
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 46, AL
28 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission1679 CO RD 64, AL
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-4
20 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20170920-1
2 September 2010Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCOUNTY ROAD 72, AL
19 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Moundville: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
Cypress PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Hale County

Storms near this place

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moundville in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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
March 2011Flash FloodMoundville$75,000As a result of heavy rainfall, 8 homes in the Moundville area were flooded. Three of these homes were on Lock 9 Road and 5 of these homes were in the Old Lock 5 area.
April 2003HailMoundville$50,000The storm then headed into Hale County where it continued producing large hail and damaging winds from near the Black Warrior River to near Payne Lake. In fact, the hail was larger ranging from 3/4 of an inch up to an 1.50 inches. Several trees were also blown down along the path in Hale County. Funnel clouds were reported as the storm moved across the county. The hail may have been larger because a few vehicles were damaged by the large hail.
September 2009Flash FloodMoundville$25,000Numerous roads in the city of Moundville had to be closed due to flooding, and water entered and damaged several homes in the area.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindMoundville$10,000Several trees were blown down on CR-67, east of Moundville, including 3 that fell onto a house.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMoundville$8,000Trees and power lines were knocked down in and around Moundville and Akron.
November 2001Tornado (F0)Moundville$7,000A tornado briefly touched down just northeast of Moundville along SR 69. The tornado knocked a few trees down and caused minor damage to a nursery and a mobile home. Beg: 33 00.047/87 37.135 End: 33 00.133/87 37.016
April 2005HailMoundville$6,000Half dollar to golf ball size hail was reported in and around Moundville.
April 2001HailMoundville$5,000Golf ball size hail was reported 12 miles east of Moundville.
April 2002HailMoundville$3,000Golf ball size hail fell across extreme northeast Hale County, east of Moundville.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindMoundville$2,000A large shed was blown over and destroyed at the Oak Hill Cemetary. Many large tree limbs were also snapped off.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMoundville$2,000Trees were reported down at Moundville State Park on the north side of Moundville in Tuscaloosa County and on the west side of Moundville in Hale County.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindMoundville-Trees were downed across various locations of northern Hale County, including in Moundville. Several homes in Moundville sustained shingle loss. Several trees were uprooted along Ann St and to the west a metal building was blown down behind Restore Physical Therapy near Highway 69. Along Paige Blvd, small trees and limbs were downed and a couple signs were blown over. On County Line Rd, a metal carport was mangled and an adjacent single-wide manufactured home received skirting and siding damage.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMoundville-Several trees and power lines were downed around Moundville, including along County Road 50. Other trees were downed along Highway 69 near Havana and Harper Hill.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindMoundville-Several tree limbs were snapped and power lines were downed in Moundville.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMoundville-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in the town of Moundville.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMoundville-Several trees uprooted around the town of Moundville.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMoundville-Several trees and powerlines were downed, some blocking roadways.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindMoundville-Multiple trees were reported down across the town of Moundville.
March 2005HailMoundville-Penny size hail was reported in far northeastern Hale County in the Talladega National Forest Area.The hail may have been larger but fell mainly in rural areas.
March 2005HailMoundville-Penny size hail was reported across extreme northern Hale County along the Tuscaloosa County line. The hail may have been larger but fell mainly in rural locations.
April 2004HailMoundville-Quarter size hail was reported between Havana and Moundville.
May 2001HailMoundville-Dime size hail was observed in Moundville.
March 2000HailMoundville-Penny size hail was observed in the Moundville area.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMoundville-Trees and power lines were knocked down in the northeast part of the county near the Talladega National Forest.
April 2006HailMoundville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hale 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
Powers2.6 miles9
Cypress4.0 miles9
Havana7.1 miles11
Stewart7.2 miles9
Phipps8.2 miles11
Harper Hill9.8 miles11
Oak Village9.9 miles14
Ingram10.0 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 MoundvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q984454The 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 160145. 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.