Onycha, Alabama
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Opp census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36467. The Survey maps it on the Onycha quadrangle. 167 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 318 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresOnycha fell from 184 to 167 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 184 | |
| 2020 | 167 | -17 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Onycha quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
82 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Onycha between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,678 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 33 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 | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.6 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.8 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SER-20140707-001 |
| 20 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | 27 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 July 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 20 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Onycha: 13 unknowns, 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
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.
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 Onycha | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q68028 | 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 160317. 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.



