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New Brockton, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36351. The Survey maps it on the New Brockton quadrangle. 1,428 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

New Brockton within Coffee County

Population over time

2 figures

New Brockton grew from 1,146 to 1,428 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
20101,146
20201,428+282 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

64 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of New Brockton between 1994 and 2017, burning about 397 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
6 September 1999Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2011Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission11367 HWY 84, AL
30 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140703-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of New Brockton: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, 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
Cof 3 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Chinca-Pine MineGoldPast Producer
Eley MineGoldPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Brockton in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
February 2008LightningNew Brockton1 hurtA woman was struck by lightning that entered the home through a computer on which she was working during the storm. She felt a tibgling sensation on her right side and EMS personnel responded to the scene.
September 1998Tornado (F1)New Brockton$500,000An F1 tornado descended near CR 732 in New Brockton damaging several chicken houses, roads, ditches, and drainage systems.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindNew Brockton$50,000Several newly constructed walls at a high school collapsed. Reported by the Coffee County EMA.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Brockton$30,000A tree blew down onto a car with wind damage to a sports complex and multiple reports of trees down in the area.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Brockton$15,000Numerous trees and power lines down in and around New Brockton. Some minor damage to a few structures.
January 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Brockton$15,000Several downed pine trees and a barn roof damaged on County Rd 543 just south of New Brockton reported by the Coffee County EM.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindNew Brockton$5,000Barns were damaged near the intersection of County Road 533 and County Road 537.
October 2017Flash FloodNew Brockton$5,000County Road 533 was impassible for a time due to a washout.
May 1998Tornado (F0)New Brockton$5,000Tornado downed trees and power lines at intersection of State Highways 233 and 167 near New Brockton. A funnel cloud was sighted earlier near Elba.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindNew Brockton$2,000Three trees were blown down around New Brockton. Monetary damage was estimated.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindNew Brockton$1,000Police department in New Brockton reported trees and power lines down. Sheriff's office reported several large trees down across roads near Enterprise.
March 2022Flash FloodNew Brockton-County Road 533 near County Road 537 was flooded.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindNew Brockton-Trees were blown down.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindNew Brockton-A tree was blown down onto County Road 533.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Brockton-A tree was blown down on South Tyler Street.
January 2010Thunderstorm WindNew Brockton-A few trees and tree limbs down. Time and wind speed estimated.
April 2005HailNew Brockton-The Coffee County EMA reported nickel size hail.

Every storm recorded in Coffee 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
Richburg1.8 miles11
Clintonville2.4 miles11
Gateway Estates3.6 miles12
Shell Heights4.6 miles12
Willow Bend4.7 miles12
Oak Ridge4.8 miles12
Boland Acres4.9 miles12
Fairfield Estates4.9 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 New BrocktonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66541The 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 152611. 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.