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Pollard, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Brewton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36441. It stands on Bay Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pollard quadrangle. 128 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 62 feet above sea level.

Pollard within Escambia County

Population over time

2 figures

Pollard fell from 137 to 128 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
2010137
2020128-9 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

223 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Pollard between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,226 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 44 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 burning82
Arson/incendiarism44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Recreation and ceremony13
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Fireworks2

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
29 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarism26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2008Arson/incendiarism53 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission3647 WOLFLOG ROAD, AL
25 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionWELKA ROAD, AL
22 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pollard: 4 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Petroleum (Oil), Sulfur, Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brewton Mine and PlantClayProducer
Edward M. Chadburn, Inc. - Jay MineSandUnknown
JayPetroleum (Oil), SulfurUnknown
Escambia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Escambia PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
M.J. Arnold Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pollard in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 3 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
April 2015Thunderstorm WindPollard$10,000Winds estimated at 60 mph blew trees and power lines down.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindPollard$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were reported down near Pollard located in the south-central portion of the county near Flomaton.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindPollard$2,000High winds downed trees in Pollard.

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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
Welka1.7 miles9
Wahl3.0 miles9
Keego3.4 miles9
Osaka3.7 miles9
Flomaton5.0 miles8
Riverview6.4 miles9
Foshee6.8 miles9
Hammac7.1 miles9

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 PollardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67687The 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 125105. 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.

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.