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Rosa, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Cleveland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35121. It stands on Whited Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cleveland quadrangle. 376 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Rosa within Blount County

Population over time

2 figures

Rosa grew from 316 to 376 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
2010316
2020376+60 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Rosa between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,346 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
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
7 September 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180907-2
6 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20130927-001
22 September 2016Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160922-1
19 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionBLOSSOM LANE, AL
19 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blount County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Rosa: 10 occurrences, 9 prospects, 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Flagstone, Manganese, Calcium. 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
Graystone PlantCalciumProducer
Unnamed ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Brown QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Lamb QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Oneoneta QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Blount CountyIronPast Producer
No Name, Oneonta AreaIronPast ProducerHematite
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in Blount County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosa in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
August 1999Thunderstorm WindRosa$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Rosa.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRosa$2,000Trees were blown down on Pine Grove Road, and in the Berry Mountain area, near the Rosa community, northwest of Oneonta.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindRosa$1,000Trees were blown down across US-231, between Cleveland and Oneonta.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindRosa-Partial roof off house on County Road 57.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindRosa-Several trees uprooted along Highway 231 between the cities of Cleveland and Oneonta.
December 2015Flash FloodRosa-Several roads flooded in the city of Oneonta.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindRosa-Trees were reported down in the Rosa area, blocking a roadway.
April 2006Flash FloodRosa-Water covered a few roads in Rosa, and made them temporarily impassable.
March 2000HailRosa-Dime to quarter size hail was reported in Rosa.

Every storm recorded in Blount 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
Easley2.7 miles21
Five Points2.8 miles20
Cleveland3.4 miles21
Fairview3.4 miles21
Oneonta3.6 miles20
Hortons Mill3.7 miles22
Graystone4.5 miles21
Eastwood4.5 miles20

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 RosaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67056The 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 125932. 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.

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.