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New Site, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the New Site census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36256. It stands on Poe Branch. The Survey maps it on the New Site quadrangle. 773 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 886 feet above sea level.

New Site within Tallapoosa County

Population over time

2 figures

New Site grew from 773 to 773 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
2010773
20207730 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

220 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of New Site between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3,103 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 85 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 burning90
Arson/incendiarism85
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-3
24 September 2005Arson/incendiarism39 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2006Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of New Site: 9 occurrences, 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Titanium, Iron, Manganese, Sulfides. 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
Jones PitsGold, SulfidesPast ProducerGold, Pyrite
Lowe MineGold, Iron, ManganesePast Producer1932, 1933
Herzfield ProspectTitaniumOccurrence
Robert Russell ProspectTitaniumOccurrence
Birdsong PitsGoldOccurrenceGold
Croft PitsGoldOccurrenceGold
Early Pits MineGoldPast ProducerGold
Germany Pits ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Goldville DistrictGoldPast Producer1842
Goldville Pits ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Site in 1 storm report in 1995: 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
October 1995Thunderstorm WindNew Site$15,000Thunderstorm wind that sounded like a freight train according to witnesses caused some property damage in the Simpson community just northeast of New Site in northeast Tallapoosa County. Trees were blown down, a roof was taken off a barn, antennas were downed, shingles were taken off several roofs, and one porch was damaged.

Every storm recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Bethleham (historical)0.9 miles11
Harmony (historical)1.0 miles11
Perryville1.8 miles11
Cowpens2.6 miles11
Zana (historical)2.9 miles11
Hamlet (historical)3.2 miles11
Goldville3.2 miles11
Zana3.3 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 SiteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67514The 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 155177. 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.