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.
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
- Harbin Hotel, Carbon Hill Road &Walker County Road 11, Nauvoofederal building survey, 1 photograph
- William S. Cook House, Walker County Road 11, Nauvoofederal building survey, 3 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresNauvoo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 221 | |
| 2020 | 185 | -36 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1893 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1949 USGS Nauvoo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Nauvoo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2000 USGS Nauvoo quadrangle1:24000
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
207 since 1994Regional 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/incendiarism | 98 |
| Debris and open burning | 57 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 16 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 40 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 9.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.7 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nauvoo | $25,000 | Multiple pine trees were uprooted, one of which fell on and destroyed a carport. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nauvoo | $11,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down along County Road 11 between Carbon Hill and Nauvoo. Some of the fallen trees blocked roadways. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nauvoo | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down and one roof was blown off a mobile home. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nauvoo | $7,000 | Several reports were received of trees down in Nauvoo, in extreme northern Walker County. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Nauvoo | $3,000 | A few roads were temporarily closed due to high water between Carbon Hill and Nauvoo. |
| February 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nauvoo | $1,000 | Several trees were blown down across county roads. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nauvoo | $1,000 | A few trees were blown down on CR 59 near the Walker and Winston County line. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nauvoo | - | Several trees uprooted in the town of Nauvoo. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nauvoo | - | Several trees uprooted in the Nauvoo Community. |
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nauvoo | - | Trees uprooted and power lines downed near the town of Nauvoo. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nauvoo | - | Several trees were uprooted in Nauvoo. |
| February 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nauvoo | - | Several trees were blown down near Highway 5 in northwest Walker County. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Nauvoo | - | Dime to Penny size hail was reported in Nauvoo. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Nauvoo | - | no account filed |
| March 2015 | Hail | Nauvoo | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slicklizzard | 1.9 miles | 11 | |
| Flatwood | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Spring Hill | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Prospect | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Dogtown | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Rosehill | 5.4 miles | 18 | |
| Lupton | 6.1 miles | 18 | |
| Kansas | 6.9 miles | 11 |
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 Nauvoo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q68338 | 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 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.







