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Mulga, 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 35118. It lies near Knowles Island. The Survey maps it on the Adamsville quadrangle. 784 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 574 feet above sea level.

Mulga within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Mulga fell from 836 to 784 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
2010836
2020784-52 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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

218 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Mulga between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,384 acres in total. None started naturally. 96 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/incendiarism96
Debris and open burning58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-14
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-27
29 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-8
26 September 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-16

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Mulga: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Watkins Number 1 PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mulga in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2006: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
December 2000HailMulga$25,000Dime to baseball size hail was reported throughout central Jefferson County west of Birmingham.
November 2006Thunderstorm WindMulga$5,000A few trees were blown down, and an awning was torn off a building.
April 2005HailMulga$1,000Nickel size hail was reported near Sylvan Springs and near Rock Creek.
March 2005HailMulga-Penny size hail was reported in Birmingport.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Bay View0.6 miles28
Mulga Mine1.1 miles28
Crockard Junction1.1 miles28
Edgewater Junction1.5 miles28
Maytown1.6 miles28
Edgewater1.8 miles28
Booker Heights1.8 miles22
Minor2.0 miles28

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 MulgaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66032The 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 152567. 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.