Peterman, Alabama
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Peterman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36471. It stands on Roiley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monroeville quadrangle. 87 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 187 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPeterman fell from 89 to 87 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 | 89 | |
| 2020 | 87 | -2 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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
- 1972 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
117 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Peterman between 1994 and 2020, burning about 765 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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 burning | 47 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.1 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peterman in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peterman | $5,000 | High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Peterman. |
| February 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peterman | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees near Grey's Store, which is about 7 miles northeast of Peterman. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peterman | $1,000 | Several trees were blown down in and around Peterman. |
| January 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peterman | - | Tree blown down blocking a roadway. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Peterman | - | no account filed |
| January 2022 | Hail | Peterman | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Peterman | - | no account filed |
| December 2007 | Hail | Peterman | - | no account filed |
| February 2001 | Hail | Peterman | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renson | 2.5 miles | 8 | |
| Valley Estates | 3.2 miles | 8 | |
| Monroeton | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Axle | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Tunnel Springs | 4.1 miles | 9 | |
| Puryearville (historical) | 4.5 miles | 7 | |
| Monroeville | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Scotland | 5.7 miles | 7 |
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 Peterman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5402029 | 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 152877. 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.



