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Smoke Rise, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Hayden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35180. It lies near Bryant Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Blount Springs quadrangle. 1,661 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Smoke Rise within Blount County

Population over time

2 figures

Smoke Rise fell from 1,825 to 1,661 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
20101,825
20201,661-164 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

187 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Smoke Rise between 1994 and 2019, burning about 832 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 28 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined85
Debris and open burning41
Arson/incendiarism28
Recreation and ceremony18
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2010Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140929-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blount County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Smoke Rise: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Blo 7 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Shannon MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect

Every working 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
Reids1.5 miles23
Bent Tree2.9 miles23
Sulpher Springs2.9 miles23
Blount Springs3.1 miles23
Hayden3.3 miles23
Danzler3.4 miles23
Nyota4.9 miles23
Harkness Crossroads5.4 miles21

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 Smoke RiseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q528515The 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 135171. 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.