Rollins, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Marbury census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36022. The Survey maps it on the Marbury quadrangle.

Rollins within Autauga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1901 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Elmore quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1986 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Marbury quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

257 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 257 fires within 5 miles of Rollins between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,237 acres in total. None started naturally. 38 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	106
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	58
Arson/incendiarism	38
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Recreation and ceremony	14
Smoking	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	26 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2003	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Autauga County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rollins in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Rollins	$6,000	The top covering of the roof at Marbury High School was blown off. Several trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Rollins	-	A 76 mph wind gust was measured on a home weather station along County Road 68. Several lengths of fencing were downed at this location.
March 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Rollins	-	The ground damage assessment began with minor roof damage to a double-wide manufactured home located near County Road 62. A metal roof covering was peeled upward and some tin was deposited on the ground near the structure with some tin found in a tree on the northeast side of the property. Minor tree damage was noted with generally a few small limbs broken within a wooded area. Wind damage was evident further northeast of this location just west of the intersection of County Road 62 and County Road 59 where a weak hardwood tree was uprooted and a small portion of the roof on a barn was removed from the structure and deposited nearby. The structure was aging and deteriorating which reduced the wind speed assignment for this damage, and all the visible tree snap damage was correlated with significant tree rot. An eyewitness outside during the event reported unidirectional winds as the damage occurred. Some minor damage to tree limbs was evident along County Road 59 near the intersection with County Road 62. Wind damage to trees was evident in a sporadic nature farther north along County Road 59 and northeast of this area east of Interstate 65 near the Intersection of Highway 31 and County Road 68.

Every storm recorded in Autauga 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wadsworth	1.2 miles	15
Pine Flat	1.3 miles	15
Wilder Hill (historical)	2.7 miles	15
Marbury	3.2 miles	15
Pyron	3.7 miles	15
New Prospect	4.5 miles	17
Stoney Point	4.7 miles	17
Pine Level	5.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 147640. 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.