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Tallassee, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Tallassee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36078. It stands on Graveyard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tallassee quadrangle. 4,763 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 390 feet above sea level.

Tallassee within Elmore County

On record in Tallassee

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 2 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Tallassee fell from 4,934 to 4,763 between 2000 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
20004,934
20104,819-115 (-2%)
20204,763-56 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Tallassee Mills, 1844 Old Mill Road, Tallassee, Elmore County, AL
Tallassee Mills, 1844 Old Mill Road, Tallassee, Elmore County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

131 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Tallassee between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,154 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 27 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 burning56
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural3
Other causes1

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 2017Debris and open burning35 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170908-1
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120927-002
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120902-001
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarism18 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minor2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore 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 Tallassee: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Sharpe # 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Elmore County

Storms near this place

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tallassee in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 22 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
November 2004Thunderstorm WindTallassee1 hurt, $85,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down or snapped off throughout Tallassee. One man suffered minor injuries when a tree landed on his moving vehicle.
April 2003Tornado (F0)Tallassee$45,000A small tornado touched down northwest of Tallassee and crossed SR 14 on a east-southeast path. The weak tornado downed trees and caused minor roof damage to several residential structures.
December 1996Thunderstorm WindTallassee$40,000no account filed
July 2005Tornado (F0)Tallassee$38,000no account filed
February 2000Thunderstorm WindTallassee$20,000Several trees were blown down in Tallassee. Two outbuildings were heavily damaged.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindTallassee$18,000Some large trees were uprooted and a few of the trees landed on vehicles. A tin roof was blown off the old Hammerstone Foods Plant.
April 1997HailTallassee$8,000Golf ball size hail was reported on Hwy 14 east, in the eastern part of the county.
July 2005Tornado (F0)Tallassee$8,000no account filed
March 2001Thunderstorm WindTallassee$5,000A few power lines were knocked over near Friendship.
July 2005LightningTallassee$4,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindTallassee$3,000Trees and power lines were reported down by state troopers near Tallassee.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindTallassee$2,000Several trees were blown down in the eastern portion of the county.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindTallassee$2,000Trees were blown down on CR 8 near the Friendship Community.
May 1998HailTallassee$2,000Hail the size of quarters was reported along SR 14 on the west side of Tallassee.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindTallassee$1,000A thunderstorm gust front blew a tree down onto a power line on Weldon Drive in Tallassee.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTallassee-Several trees and a few power lines were downed around the Eclectic and Tallassee areas, one of which fell on a large storage container near Kent. A roof was blown off a building on Sistrunk St in Tallassee as well.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindTallassee-A few trees were uprooted across both Friendship Rd and Tallassee Highway.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindTallassee-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in Tallassee.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindTallassee-Multiple trees uprooted uprooted in the city of Tallassee.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindTallassee-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in Tallassee.
December 2021HailTallassee-Golf Ball size hail reported along State Route 14.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindTallassee-Several trees uprooted in the city of Tallassee.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindTallassee-Several trees uprooted in the town of Tallassee.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindTallassee-Several trees uprooted in the town of Tallassee.
June 2016HailTallassee-Large hail reported in the city of Tallassee.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindTallassee-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in the city of Tallassee.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindTallassee-Trees were reported down in and around the community of Friendship.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindTallassee-A few trees were uprooted in and around Tallasee.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindTallassee-Trees were reported down in the Friendship community.
March 2011HailTallassee-Hail up to the size of quarters fell in Tallassee, completely covering the ground in places.
April 2007HailTallassee-Reported in the Friendship Community.
January 2000HailTallassee-Penny size hail was reported in Tallassee.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindTallassee-Trees were reported down by thunderstorm wind near Tallassee.
March 2005HailTallassee-no account filed
March 2005HailTallassee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Elmore 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
Jordanville0.5 miles11
Hornsbytown1.6 miles11
Burlington (historical)3.9 miles11
Butts Mill4.1 miles11
Friendship4.3 miles11
Liberty5.6 miles11
Neman5.7 miles11
Kent6.4 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 TallasseeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79215The 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 153643. 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.