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Silverhill, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Robertsdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36576. The Survey maps it on the Silverhill quadrangle. 768 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

Silverhill within Baldwin County

On record in Silverhill

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Silverhill grew from 706 to 768 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
2010706
2020768+62 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

80 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Silverhill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 542 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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 burning36
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150925-002
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150919-002
16 September 1999Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2011Debris and open burning5.8 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNIMPHS LANE, AL
22 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150622-001
17 June 1995Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 May 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin 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 Silverhill: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Marlow QuarrySand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Baldwin County Plant SummerdaleSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silverhill in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 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
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSilverhill$10,000Several large 40 to 50 foot diameter trees were reported down in the Silverhill community due to thunderstorm wind gusts near 60 mph. Power lines were also downed.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSilverhill$10,000Several trees and power lines blown down just north of Silverhill and near Bay Minette.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSilverhill$7,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed several trees in Silverhill with one tree down on a house.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindSilverhill$5,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew several shingles from a home's roof near Silverhill.
July 1999LightningSilverhill$5,000A house was reported struck by lightning and caught fire.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSilverhill$500Trees were blown down in Silverhill. EMA estimated wind speed of 60 mph.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSilverhill-High winds damaged vehicles with windows blown out and rolled a small camper.
July 2019Heavy RainSilverhill-Total rainfall of 6.33 inches.
October 2017Flash FloodSilverhill-Water reached up to the car door at a residence west of County Road 55.
October 2017Flash FloodSilverhill-Water rescue on CR 55 at Camellia Road.
March 2011Tornado (EF2)Silverhill-The tornado first touched down on West Boulevard just south of South Boulevard in Silverhill. At this location two homes suffered roof damage with some windows blown out. The tornado then tracked toward the northeast quickly widening and reaching EF-2 intensity on the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale as it moved just south of South Avenue west of County Road 55. Maximum winds were between 111 miles per hour and 135 miles per hour. Several homes were destroyed or severely damaged, and a utility trailer was thrown nearly 100 yards. A pickup truck that was backing out of the U.S. Post Office was tossed 40 yards and flipped, with minor injuries to the driver. The tornado continue northeast crossing Highway 104, doing major damage to several homes, businesses and structures. The tornado lifted near County Road 52 just east of Hill Road.
May 2006HailSilverhill-no account filed
January 1997HailSilverhill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baldwin 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
Robertsdale2.2 miles16
Summerdale4.8 miles17
Loxley5.0 miles18
Clay City5.0 miles18
Rosinton5.9 miles16
Ellisville6.1 miles18
Marlow6.3 miles18
Belforest6.7 miles18

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 SilverhillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67127The 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 126858. 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.