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Nauvoo, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Nauvoo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35578. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nauvoo quadrangle. 185 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 568 feet above sea level.

Nauvoo within Walker County

On record in Nauvoo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Nauvoo fell from 221 to 185 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
2010221
2020185-36 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

William S. Cook House, Walker County Road 11, Nauvoo, Walker County, AL
William S. Cook House, Walker County Road 11, Nauvoo, Walker County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Harbin Hotel, Carbon Hill Road &Walker County Road 11, Nauvoo, Walker County, AL
Harbin Hotel, Carbon Hill Road &Walker County Road 11, Nauvoo, Walker County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

207 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Nauvoo between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,181 acres in total. None started naturally. 98 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/incendiarism98
Debris and open burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony15
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
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
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarism16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremony40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning2.4 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.7 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nauvoo in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindNauvoo$25,000Multiple pine trees were uprooted, one of which fell on and destroyed a carport.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNauvoo$11,000Several trees and power lines were blown down along County Road 11 between Carbon Hill and Nauvoo. Some of the fallen trees blocked roadways.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindNauvoo$10,000Several trees were blown down and one roof was blown off a mobile home.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindNauvoo$7,000Several reports were received of trees down in Nauvoo, in extreme northern Walker County.
June 2005Flash FloodNauvoo$3,000A few roads were temporarily closed due to high water between Carbon Hill and Nauvoo.
February 2007Thunderstorm WindNauvoo$1,000Several trees were blown down across county roads.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindNauvoo$1,000A few trees were blown down on CR 59 near the Walker and Winston County line.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindNauvoo-Several trees uprooted in the town of Nauvoo.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNauvoo-Several trees uprooted in the Nauvoo Community.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindNauvoo-Trees uprooted and power lines downed near the town of Nauvoo.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindNauvoo-Several trees were uprooted in Nauvoo.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindNauvoo-Several trees were blown down near Highway 5 in northwest Walker County.
June 2005HailNauvoo-Dime to Penny size hail was reported in Nauvoo.
April 2021HailNauvoo-no account filed
March 2015HailNauvoo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Slicklizzard1.9 miles11
Flatwood3.2 miles11
Spring Hill3.8 miles11
Prospect4.5 miles18
Dogtown5.0 miles11
Rosehill5.4 miles18
Lupton6.1 miles18
Kansas6.9 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 NauvooAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q68338The 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 160219. 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.

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.