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North Courtland, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Town Creek-Courtland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35618. It stands on Schoolhouse Branch. The Survey maps it on the Courtland quadrangle. 483 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 568 feet above sea level.

North Courtland within Lawrence County

Population over time

3 figures

North Courtland fell from 799 to 483 between 2000 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
2000799
2010632-167 (-21%)
2020483-149 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

91 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of North Courtland between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,932 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 39 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/incendiarism39
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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 2016Equipment and vehicle use100 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160908-7
21 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 July 2010Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 June 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Courtland Downs0.3 miles14
Rocky Hill0.9 miles14
Courtland1.1 miles14
Rocky Hill (historical)2.0 miles14
Terry Heights2.4 miles14
Rigdom2.5 miles14
Terrytown3.4 miles13
Town Creek4.1 miles15

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 North CourtlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65667The 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 136800. 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.