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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.

Rock Mills within Randolph County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Rock 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.

YearPeople Change
2010600
2020603+3 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

101 since 1993

Regional 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism11
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-32
14 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1996Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2011Arson/incendiarism47 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 22/AL 47, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2006Thunderstorm WindRock Mills$10,000The upper portion of a house was damaged, and an outbuilding was destroyed, on CR 16 between Roanoke and Rock Mills.
August 2000LightningRock Mills$5,000no account filed
December 2009Thunderstorm WindRock Mills$2,000Several trees were blown down in the southeastern part of Randolph County.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindRock Mills$2,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindRock Mills-A large tree was uprooted at Highway 22 and County Road 30.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindRock Mills-Trees and power lines were blown down in the Rock Mills area, including along County Road 75.
August 1995HailRock Mills-Hail ranging in size from marble to dimes was reported through the Sheriff's Department at Rock Mills.

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Moores Crossroads1.4 miles11
Lime1.5 miles11
Bacon Level2.2 miles11
Barrett Crossroads2.5 miles11
Center Chapel2.7 miles11
Lee Crossroads2.9 miles11
Paran3.7 miles11
White Crossroads3.9 miles11

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 MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1274925The 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.