Rock Mills, Alabama
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Roanoke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36274. It stands on Vineyard Branch. The Survey maps it on the Roanoke East quadrangle. 603 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 781 feet above sea level.
On record in Rock Mills
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
McCosh Grist Milllisted 1976
Population over time
2 figuresRock Mills grew from 600 to 603 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 | 600 | |
| 2020 | 603 | +3 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1899 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000
- 1902 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Roanoke East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
101 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Rock Mills between 1993 and 2020, burning about 619 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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 burning | 46 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190920-32 |
| 14 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 2009 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 1996 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 47 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | CR 22/AL 47, AL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rock Mills in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2013: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rock Mills | $10,000 | The upper portion of a house was damaged, and an outbuilding was destroyed, on CR 16 between Roanoke and Rock Mills. |
| August 2000 | Lightning | Rock Mills | $5,000 | no account filed |
| December 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rock Mills | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down in the southeastern part of Randolph County. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rock Mills | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rock Mills | - | A large tree was uprooted at Highway 22 and County Road 30. |
| January 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rock Mills | - | Trees and power lines were blown down in the Rock Mills area, including along County Road 75. |
| August 1995 | Hail | Rock Mills | - | Hail ranging in size from marble to dimes was reported through the Sheriff's Department at Rock Mills. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moores Crossroads | 1.4 miles | 11 | |
| Lime | 1.5 miles | 11 | |
| Bacon Level | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| Barrett Crossroads | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Center Chapel | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Lee Crossroads | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Paran | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| White Crossroads | 3.9 miles | 11 |
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 Rock Mills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1274925 | 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 153181. 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.






