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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.

Peterman within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Peterman 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.

YearPeople Change
201089
202087-2 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

117 since 1994

Regional 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Other causes1

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
8 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.1 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2003Thunderstorm WindPeterman$5,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Peterman.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindPeterman$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees near Grey's Store, which is about 7 miles northeast of Peterman.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindPeterman$1,000Several trees were blown down in and around Peterman.
January 2010Thunderstorm WindPeterman-Tree blown down blocking a roadway.
May 2025HailPeterman-no account filed
January 2022HailPeterman-no account filed
April 2009HailPeterman-no account filed
December 2007HailPeterman-no account filed
February 2001HailPeterman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Renson2.5 miles8
Valley Estates3.2 miles8
Monroeton3.3 miles8
Axle3.8 miles8
Tunnel Springs4.1 miles9
Puryearville (historical)4.5 miles7
Monroeville5.2 miles8
Scotland5.7 miles7

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 PetermanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5402029The 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.