Pike Road, Alabama
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Pike Road census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36064. The Survey maps it on the Mount Meigs quadrangle. 9,439 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 295 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPike Road grew from 5,406 to 9,439 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 | 5,406 | |
| 2020 | 9,439 | +4,033 (+75%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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 Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mount Meigs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Mount Meigs SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Mount Meigs quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
26 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Pike Road between 1995 and 2017, burning about 232 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 burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | TROTTMAN RD., AL |
| 10 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 45 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | ECR-20120710-002 |
| 1 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 670 TIMBERLANE ROAD, AL |
| 7 June 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 June 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pike Road in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Pike Road | $30,000 | What was believed to be a small tornado touched down briefly on the south side of CR 40 mostly in open field area. One mobile home was damaged seriously with some of the insulation from the home blown upward into trees surrounding the home. Little other damage occurred. Beginning: 32 16.445/86 07.848 End: 32 16.589/86 07.432 |
| November 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pike Road | $4,000 | A few trees and power lines were blown down near Pike Road. Two homes also sustained minor damage. This storm went on to produce a tornado minutes later just to the east. |
| February 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pike Road | - | Multiple trees were downed in the Pike Road area. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Pike Road | - | Golf Ball size hail reported along Pike Road. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Pike Road | - | A merger of thunderstorms over eastern portions of the Montgomery area produced intense rainfall rates and resulted in flash flooding. The flooding caused water to enter several homes and water boat rescues of persons trapped in vehicles. Some of the flooded roads include Glynnwood Drive, Breckenridge Drive, and Vaughn Road. |
| December 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pike Road | - | Trees were uprooted in the Pike Road Community. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pike Road | - | Reported near US 231 and CR 82. |
| December 2005 | Hail | Pike Road | - | Penny size hail fell along US 231 south of the Pike Road community. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foxchase | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| Foxwood | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| London | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Perrys Mill | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| McDade | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Foxwood Trace | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Timberlane | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Ranchette Estates | 4.3 miles | 13 |
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 Pike Road | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q67398 | 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 155197. 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.






