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Reece City, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Gadsden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35954. The Survey maps it on the Gadsden West quadrangle. 615 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Reece City within Etowah County

Population over time

2 figures

Reece City fell from 653 to 615 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
2010653
2020615-38 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

173 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Reece City between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,465 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 98 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
Arson/incendiarism98
Debris and open burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Reece City: 15 past producers, 5 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Open PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerChert
Republic Steel Corp. PlantSulfurPast Producer
Attalla Iron Ore Prospect No 1IronOccurrence
Attalla Iron Ore Prospect No 2IronOccurrence
Attalla Iron Ore Prospect No 3IronOccurrence
Crudup MineIronPast ProducerHematite
Daisy MineIronPast Producer
Etowah Iron Ore Prospect N0 2IronOccurrence
Etowah Iron Ore Prospect No 1IronOccurrence
Etowah No. 1 MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Etowah County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reece City in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 1998Tornado (F1)Reece City$30,000An F1 tornado began just northwest of Gadsden along US 11. The tornado traveled along US 11 into Reece City. Hundreds of trees were snapped and uprooted along the path, and a few of the trees fell onto homes.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindReece City$5,000A tree fell onto and damaged a house, near the intersection of I-59 and Noccalula Parkway.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindReece City-A tree was downed near I-59, resulting in a truck getting stuck.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindReece City-Multiple trees uprooted in the city of Reece.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindReece City-Two trees uprooted near the town of Reece City.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindReece City-Several trees were reported blown down in Reece City and Rainbow City. A downed tree also interrupted cable television service in Rainbow City.
March 2012HailReece City-no account filed
May 2008HailReece City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Etowah 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
Tuckahoe Heights0.7 miles22
Scenic Heights1.2 miles22
Agricola1.2 miles22
Morton (historical)1.4 miles22
Cave Springs1.7 miles22
The Highlands1.8 miles22
Crudup2.4 miles22
Black Creek Falls (historical)2.4 miles22

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 Reece CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66179The 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 158063. 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.