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Notasulga, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Notasulga census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36866. It stands on Town Creek. The Survey maps it on the Notasulga quadrangle. 914 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,680 feet above sea level.

Notasulga within Macon County

On record in Notasulga

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 3 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Notasulga fell from 965 to 914 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
2010965
2020914-51 (-5%)

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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Le Sueur's Mill, Ropes Creek, Notasulga, Macon County, AL
Le Sueur's Mill, Ropes Creek, Notasulga, Macon County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

60 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Notasulga between 1995 and 2019, burning about 1,147 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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/incendiarism20
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning54 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2016Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160911-5
10 August 2010Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2000Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 1995Smoking4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 1995Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Notasulga: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Mac 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Macon County

Storms near this place

22 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Notasulga in 22 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
November 2011Tornado (EF1)Notasulga$500,000A tornado touched down in northeast Macon County south of Notasulga, east of County Road 81, along County Road 59. The tornado moved to the northeast, causing extensive tree damage. Approximately a dozen mobile homes sustained damage along County Road 54, before the tornado crossed into Lee County, south of Hunter Road.
April 2009Tornado (EF1)Notasulga$200,000The tornado that touched down near Liberty City in Tallapoosa County crossed into Macon County, and continued to travel southeast, staying just southwest of the Lee County line for most of its path. In Macon County, thousands of trees were either snapped off or uprooted along the damage path. A few mobile homes suffered varying degrees of damage, and one mobile home was knocked off its foundation. Several barns had their roofs partially removed, and several other structures suffered varying degrees of roof damage. Several homes and vehicles had windows broken out.
April 2003HailNotasulga$85,000The supercell continued producing very large hail in a swath that covered the northern part of Macon County. Hail up to baseball size fell near Notasulga. Numerous automobiles and homes were damaged. A few trees were also blown down along the path.
November 2004Thunderstorm WindNotasulga$20,000A roof was blown off an office building. Several trees were blown down along Highway 14.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindNotasulga$18,000A vacant mobile was destroyed and several power lines were damaged along SR 199 near Notasulga.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindNotasulga$2,000Trees were blown down in and around the city of Notasulga.
March 1999Thunderstorm WindNotasulga$2,000A grocery store sustained minor damage when its front awning was torn off by wind gusts. Several trees were knocked down around the county.
April 2005HailNotasulga$1,000Quarter size hail was reported in and near Notasulga in northern Macon County.
February 2024Flash FloodNotasulga-Numerous county roadways were flooded and impassable after several inches of rainfall overnight.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindNotasulga-Measured wind gust of 68 MPH gust reported by a home weather station in the town of Notasulga.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindNotasulga-Large oak tree snapped and two power poles snapped in front of Notasulga High School.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNotasulga-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in the town of Notasulga.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindNotasulga-Several trees uprooted near County Road 39 and Highway 14.
December 2015Flash FloodNotasulga-Heavy rainfall led to flash flooding and washed out a section of County Road 59. Seven to eight bridges have washed out.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindNotasulga-A few trees were uprooted near the intersection of County Road 54 and County Road 37.
June 2010HailNotasulga-Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported on AL-14, near Connection Road just west of Notasulga.
April 2020HailNotasulga-no account filed
March 2019HailNotasulga-no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindNotasulga-no account filed
March 2013HailNotasulga-no account filed
March 2011HailNotasulga-no account filed
June 2011HailNotasulga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Macon 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
Broach Mill4.5 miles11
Woodland5.7 miles11
Golddust5.8 miles11
Chehaw6.1 miles11
Clough7.3 miles9
Pleasant Hill7.7 miles10
Alliance8.0 miles10
Franklin8.9 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 NotasulgaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q68131The 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 152715. 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.