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Repton, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Repton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36475. The Survey maps it on the Repton quadrangle. 235 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 351 feet above sea level.

Repton within Conecuh County

Population over time

2 figures

Repton fell from 282 to 235 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
2010282
2020235-47 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

225 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Repton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,652 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 57 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 burning80
Arson/incendiarism57
Railroad operations and maintenance33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Arson/incendiarism16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150918-004
17 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150917-004
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200804-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conecuh County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Repton: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Harden MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ivey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kendrick QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Lenox PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Monroe Concrete PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Monroe Concrete PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Conecuh County

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Repton in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
January 2016Thunderstorm WindRepton$10,000Winds estimated at 70 mph destroyed a barn and snapped limbs off several trees. A screened porch was blown in.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindRepton$10,000High winds from a cluster of thunderstorms sporadically blew down trees along U. S. Highway 84 between Repton and Evergreen. Heavy rain also accompanied the thunderstorms, with temporary street flooding along U. S. Highway 84. WSR-88D radar rainfall estimates were between five and seven inches across the area.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindRepton$10,000Trees were blown down as a line of thunderstorms passed through the community.
November 2001Thunderstorm WindRepton$10,000Trees were blown down along Highways 84 and 7, just to the east of Repton.
April 1998HailRepton$10,000Baseball size hail fell along U S Highway 84 from the Monroe and Conecuh county line to just east of Repton. Vehicles in this area had damage to windshields and pings in their exterior. Many homes suffered roof damage and windows that were facing west were broken out. The storm that produced this large hail event had earlier produced large hail in parts of Monroe county.
December 2000Thunderstorm WindRepton$5,000Trees were blown down near Repton from high winds during a thunderstorm.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindRepton$5,000High winds blew trees down.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindRepton$2,000High winds downed a tree on a road between CR 5 and CR 7.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindRepton-High winds downed trees and power lines along Ryals Road.
April 2021HailRepton-Media report of quarter sized hail in Repton.
April 2021HailRepton-Social media report of hail up to ping pong ball size in Repton.

Every storm recorded in Conecuh 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
Lenox5.8 miles7
Bermuda6.0 miles8
Range6.7 miles7
Belleville7.0 miles7
Nichburg7.3 miles8
Brantley Crossing8.8 miles7
Sand Cut8.9 miles7
Loree9.6 miles7

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 ReptonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66946The 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 125568. 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.