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.
Population over time
2 figuresRockville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 43 | |
| 2020 | 47 | +4 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1943 USGS Choctaw Bluff quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Choctaw Bluff quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Alma quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Choctaw Bluff NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
63 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20150920-001 |
| 16 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160824-3 |
| 13 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 July 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Salt Works | Bromine | Occurrence | Halite | |
| The Salt Mountain Well | Bromine | Occurrence | 1904 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choctaw Bluff | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Carlton | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Alma | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Jackson | 6.7 miles | 8 | |
| Gainestown | 8.1 miles | 7 | |
| Walker Springs | 8.8 miles | 8 | |
| Manila | 8.8 miles | 7 | |
| Stave Creek | 10.7 miles | 8 |
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 Rockville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1262239 | 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 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.






