BlockBefore

Newville, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Headland-Newville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36353. It stands on White Branch. The Survey maps it on the Newville quadrangle. 544 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 397 feet above sea level.

Newville within Henry County

Population over time

4 figures

Newville grew from 522 to 544 between 1910 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
1910522
2000553
2010539-14 (-3%)
2020544+5 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

34 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Newville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 137 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
1 July 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 June 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150621-001
21 June 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190614-3
13 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190613-2
25 May 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 173 N. NEWVILLE, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newville in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
January 1997Tornado (F2)Newville$180,000no account filed
November 2006Tornado (F1)Newville$150,000A tornado touched down just south of Newville and crossed U.S. Highway 431 where it heavily damaged a yeast facility. A nearby building materials warehouse and service station sustained some damage. The tornado then weakened but downed numerous trees along its path before it dissipated.
March 2026Tornado (EF1)Newville$100,000An aerial survey indicated that a tornado touched down northwest of Newville, AL damaging the roof of a two-story business near the intersection of West Columbia Road and Reynolds Street. As the tornado crossed downtown Newville, it snapped and uprooted many trees and damaged the roofs of several businesses between the Seaboard Coastline Railroad tracks and Oak Lane including E Columbia Road. The tornado snapped trees on Wheddon Farm Road before lifting near U.S. 431. Maximum sustained winds were estimated to be 100 mph which is EF-1 strength.
September 1998Tornado (F0)Newville$75,000An F0 tornado damaged a barn and residence off CR 173 in Newville.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindNewville$10,000The Henry County EMA reported vinyl siding torn off a house.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindNewville$5,000High winds caused numerous power outages due to tree limbs and other debris blowing onto the power lines.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindNewville$5,000Tree damage and damage to a barn was reported near County Road 56 and County Road 99.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNewville$3,000Power lines and at least one tree were blown down.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindNewville$3,000Trees were blown down in a few places around the county. Monetary damage was estimated.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindNewville$2,500Some downed power lines reported by Newville Police.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindNewville$2,000A tree and power lines were blown down on the 1900 block of County Road 5.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindNewville$1,000Straight-line winds downed numerous trees countywide.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindNewville$500Seven trees were blown down, with five across railroad tracks. A power pole was snapped. The damage occurred on Ozark and Columbia Roads in Newville.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindNewville$500Trees down on County Road 33. Reported by the Henry County EMA.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNewville-Several trees were blown down across Henry county.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNewville-Three trees were blown down in the Newville area.

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Danzey4.0 miles8
Kirklands Crossroads4.3 miles8
Tumbleton4.4 miles8
Blackwood4.4 miles8
Headland4.9 miles7
Capps5.4 miles8
Walden Pond Estates5.4 miles7
Southgate5.7 miles7

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 NewvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67928The 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 152690. 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.