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Rockville, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Walker Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36545. The Survey maps it on the Alma quadrangle. 47 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 308 feet above sea level.

Rockville within Clarke County

Population over time

2 figures

Rockville grew from 43 to 47 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
201043
202047+4 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Rockville between 1994 and 2018, burning about 912 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
29 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150920-001
16 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160824-3
13 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 1996Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rockville: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Bromine. 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
Lower Salt WorksBromineOccurrenceHalite
The Salt Mountain WellBromineOccurrence1904

Every working recorded in Clarke 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
Choctaw Bluff3.6 miles12
Carlton5.3 miles11
Alma5.6 miles12
Jackson6.7 miles8
Gainestown8.1 miles7
Walker Springs8.8 miles8
Manila8.8 miles7
Stave Creek10.7 miles8

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 RockvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1262239The 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 156983. 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.