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Ranburne, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ranburne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36273. It stands on Little Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bowdon West quadrangle. 422 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Ranburne within Cleburne County

Population over time

2 figures

Ranburne grew from 409 to 422 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
2010409
2020422+13 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

98 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Ranburne between 1993 and 2020, burning about 582 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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 burning37
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140908-001
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2008Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 659, AL
24 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission419 CO. ROAD 659, AL
23 September 2018Debris and open burning3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019CARROLL003
21 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-22
18 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Ranburne: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Ballinger ProspectGoldOccurrence
Gold Ridge MineGoldPast Producer1908
Gold Ridge MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Gold Ridge MineGoldPast Producer
Middle Brook MineGoldPast Producer
Middlebrook MineGoldPast ProducerGold
Sutherland MineGoldPast ProducerGold
Sutherland MineGoldPast Producer
Wise MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cleburne County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ranburne in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
August 2025Flash FloodRanburne1 killed, 1 hurtHeavy rain fell over Cleburne County for several hours during the early morning of August 3. Rainfall totals across the southern part of the county between Ranburne and Heflin were generally up to 5-8, with as high as 8-10 estimated by radar in the area of Turkey Heaven Mountain and corroborated by local reports. Numerous roadways were flooded or washed out, along with a bridge on CR 640. Impacted roadways included CR 10 at CR 635, CR 41, CR 633, and CR 640 all around Knokes Creek. Around 4:40 am CDT, a vehicle became stranded in high water on CR 10 at CR 635, and the occupant needed to be rescued. Around 6:20 am CDT, another vehicle became stuck in floodwaters along CR 41. Two occupants of the vehicle were swept away. One was rescued with minor injuries, while the second was found deceased a couple hours later.||Emergency management, police, and fire provided reports of other flooded or washed out roads, which included CR 10 near Pineywood Creek, CR 75 at CR 42 along Sheep Creek, CR 19 at CR 118, CR 36 at Dynne Creek near Greens Chapel, CR 49 at the Tallapoosa River near Abernathy, and CR 49 at CR 48 near Macedonia.||Streams flowing northward into the Tallapoosa River resulted in the river rising to minor flood stage near Heflin during the morning and midday hours.
May 2003LightningRanburne$70,000Lightning struck a home on Webb Drive and the resulting fire damaged 50 percent of the home. Another lightning strike caused minor damage to a home on SR 46.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindRanburne$3,000Several trees were reported down in the Abel Community.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindRanburne$1,000Trees were blown down near Ranburne.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindRanburne-A power line was downed along Stateline Road.
May 2003HailRanburne-Quarter size hail was reported in Ranburne.
May 1998HailRanburne-Dime size hail was reported in the town of Ranburne.

Every storm recorded in Cleburne 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
Union Hill2.7 miles14
Hightower2.8 miles14
Macedonia4.0 miles16
Trickem4.2 miles14
Lecta6.5 miles14
Hopewell7.8 miles15
Abernathy9.4 miles15
Bell Mills9.4 miles14

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 RanburneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66536The 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 153111. 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.