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Newbern, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Newbern census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36765. The Survey maps it on the Newbern quadrangle. 133 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 187 feet above sea level.

Newbern within Hale County

On record in Newbern

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

On the National Register 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 4 records

Population over time

4 figures

Newbern fell from 454 to 133 between 1880 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
1880454
2000231
2010186-45 (-19%)
2020133-53 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

81 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Newbern between 1994 and 2020, burning about 508 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140930-001
30 September 2010Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150925-002
18 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale County

Storms near this place

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newbern in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2009Tornado (EF1)Newbern$75,000A brief tornado touched down along CR-10 west of AL-61, which is south southwest of Newbern in the Sunshine Community. The roof and metal siding was completely taken off one barn, and partially off another. Another cinder block building on the farm sustained roof damage. A few trees were blown down along the short path.
April 2005HailNewbern$4,000Hail up to the size of golf balls fell across southern Hale County.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindNewbern-A few trees uprooted south of the town of Newbern.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNewbern-Several trees uprooted in the town of Newbern.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindNewbern-Several trees uprooted along County Road 10.
April 2003HailNewbern-Penny size hail fell across extreme southeast Hale County near the Marengo and Perry county lines.
March 2013HailNewbern-no account filed
February 2009HailNewbern-no account filed
February 2007HailNewbern-no account filed
March 2000HailNewbern-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hale 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
Sunshine2.4 miles9
Whitsitt3.2 miles9
Rosemary4.4 miles9
Laneville5.9 miles9
Cedarville7.4 miles12
Casemore8.1 miles12
Oak Grove8.3 miles12
Greensboro8.4 miles9

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 NewbernAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66780The 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 152687. 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.