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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.

Standing Rock within Chambers County

Population over time

2 figures

Standing 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.

YearPeople Change
2010168
2020132-36 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

121 since 1992

Regional 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 burning53
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
27 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-20
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-26
23 September 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180923-3
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200809-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
R.I.Beckem PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1999Flash FloodStanding Rock$8,000Heavy 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.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Finley2.1 miles11
McCosh Mill2.1 miles14
Cumbee Mill3.3 miles11
Stroud4.5 miles11
Welch4.6 miles11
Oakland4.6 miles14
Fredonia6.5 miles13
Five Points6.7 miles11

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 RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1263436The 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.