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.
Population over time
3 figuresNorth 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 799 | |
| 2010 | 632 | -167 (-21%) |
| 2020 | 483 | -149 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1936 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
91 since 1994Regional 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/incendiarism | 39 |
| Debris and open burning | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160908-7 |
| 21 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 August 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 June 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Courtland Downs | 0.3 miles | 14 | |
| Rocky Hill | 0.9 miles | 14 | |
| Courtland | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| Rocky Hill (historical) | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Terry Heights | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Rigdom | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Terrytown | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Town Creek | 4.1 miles | 15 |
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 Courtland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q65667 | The 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.







