Standing Rock, Alabama
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Five Points census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36855. The Survey maps it on the Five Points quadrangle. 132 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresStanding Rock fell from 168 to 132 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 | 168 | |
| 2020 | 132 | -36 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1899 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000
- 1902 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Five Points quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
121 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Standing Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 898 acres in total. None 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 burning | 53 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190927-20 |
| 24 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190924-26 |
| 23 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20180923-3 |
| 22 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20200809-4 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Standing Rock: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R.I.Beckem Property | Iron, Manganese | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Standing Rock in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Flash Flood | Standing Rock | $8,000 | Heavy rainfall of three to six inches fell across northern Chambers County in a few hours. Water was a few feet deep covering CR 228 in Standing Rock, north of Lafayette. The water pushed a few trees down and the debris was also covering the road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finley | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| McCosh Mill | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Cumbee Mill | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Stroud | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Welch | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Oakland | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Fredonia | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Five Points | 6.7 miles | 11 |
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 Standing Rock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1263436 | 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 127300. 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.






