Providence, Alabama
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Linden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36742. It stands on Whirl Creek. The Survey maps it on the Linden quadrangle. 167 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 98 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresProvidence fell from 223 to 167 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 | 223 | |
| 2020 | 167 | -56 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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
- 1970 USGS Linden quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
95 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Providence between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,769 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| 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 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.1 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190929-10 |
| 24 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20140924-002 |
| 21 September 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2015 | Other causes | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20150920-004 |
| 20 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Providence in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Providence | $18,000 | Trees were downed and the top of a shed was blown off just north of Linden. Part of the roof and much of the gas pump cover to a convenience store in Providence was damaged by the wind. In Linden the front window of a business on Main Street was broken by the wind. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linden | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Half Chance | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Pin Hook | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Old Spring Hill | 6.6 miles | 10 | |
| Blue Lock (historical) | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Jefferson | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Hugo | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Dayton | 7.4 miles | 10 |
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 Providence | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q65824 | 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 137658. 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.




