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Pennington, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Lisman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36916. It stands on Perry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pennington quadrangle. 329 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 103 feet above sea level.

Pennington within Choctaw County

Population over time

2 figures

Pennington grew from 221 to 329 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
2010221
2020329+108 (+49%)

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

50 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Pennington between 1994 and 2017, burning about 372 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission196 GREY FOX ROAD, AL
23 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1995Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission859 MARZETTA ROAD, AL
24 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140806-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw County

Storms near this place

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pennington in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 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
March 2011Flash FloodPennington$15,000Heavy rain caused a section of Highway 156 west of Pennington to be washed out.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindPennington$15,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Pennington. A few of the trees fell on some buildings causing minor damage to the structures.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPennington$15,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Pennington. One of the trees fell on a truck and damaged it. Penny size hail was also reported.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindPennington$10,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Pennington.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindPennington$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down by high winds from a thunderstorm near Pennington.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPennington$10,000Several trees were blown down between Pennington and Lisman as thunderstorms moved through the area.
November 2003Thunderstorm WindPennington$8,000Several trees and power lines were blown down by high winds from a thunderstorm near Pennington.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindPennington$5,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees and powerlines on Pine Grove Road.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindPennington$5,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees and power lines.
January 1998Thunderstorm WindPennington$3,000Trees were blown down near Pennington.
March 2021Flash FloodPennington-Water covering several roads in the county with several road closures.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindPennington-Several trees blown down by severe thunderstorm winds.
March 2011Flash FloodPennington-Heavy rain caused water to cover Highway 156 at mile marker 7.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindPennington-The Public reported a wind gust estimated at 60 mph.
January 2000Flash FloodPennington-Local law enforcement indicated that water from heavy rains was covering roads in the community. Highway 156 was reported closed for a short time. WSR-88D radar estimated that four to five inches of rain fell across the area.
May 1998HailPennington-Dime size hail fell from Butler to Pennington.
August 2010HailPennington-no account filed
February 2009HailPennington-no account filed
October 2004HailPennington-no account filed
April 2003HailPennington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Choctaw 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
Tompkinsville1.9 miles8
Choctaw City2.0 miles8
Naheola2.0 miles8
Deas2.7 miles8
Robjohn3.8 miles9
Indian Springs3.9 miles8
Lavaca4.8 miles8
Edna5.6 miles8

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 PenningtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66010The 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 124588. 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.