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Thomaston, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Thomaston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36783. It stands on Poplar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thomaston West quadrangle. 326 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 187 feet above sea level.

Thomaston within Marengo County

On record in Thomaston

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Thomaston fell from 417 to 326 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
2010417
2020326-91 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Thomaston between 1994 and 2020, burning about 340 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140920-001
17 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Debris and open burning11 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2000Debris and open burning16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 28, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thomaston in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2004Tornado (F2)Thomaston2 hurt, $135,000no account filed
February 1997Thunderstorm WindThomaston$15,000no account filed
November 2004Tornado (F0)Thomaston$10,000no account filed
December 2000Thunderstorm WindThomaston$8,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Thomaston.
January 2026Thunderstorm WindThomaston-Trees were downed in the Thomaston area.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindThomaston-A few trees were blown down near Thomaston.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindThomaston-Multiple trees uprooted in Thomaston.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindThomaston-Numerous trees uprooted along County Roads 25 and 28.
March 2005HailThomaston-Penny size hail was reported along SR 66 in far eastern Marengo County.
May 1998HailThomaston-Dime size hail was reported by the sheriff's office.

Every storm recorded in Marengo 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
Old White Hall (historical)0.9 miles9
Crenshaw (historical)2.4 miles9
Wootens (historical)2.7 miles9
Hugo3.4 miles10
Kings (historical)3.6 miles9
Consul4.5 miles9
McKinley5.0 miles9
Dayton5.9 miles10

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 ThomastonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66905The 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 127881. 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.

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.