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Tibbie, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Wagarville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36583. The Survey maps it on the Seaboard quadrangle. 55 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 226 feet above sea level.

Tibbie within Washington County

Population over time

2 figures

Tibbie grew from 41 to 55 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
201041
202055+14 (+34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

133 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Tibbie between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,291 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 42 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
Arson/incendiarism42
Debris and open burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism80 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1997Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tibbie in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
June 2001LightningTibbie1 hurtLightning indirectly struck a woman while she was standing on the back porch of her home during a thunderstorm. The woman was not hospitalized as she was checked by emergency medical personnel at the scene and declared to be not significantly injured.
January 1998Thunderstorm WindTibbie$25,000High winds damaged five homes near the community of Tibbie. One home had most of its roof taken off. The other four had minor damage. Several trees were also blown down. One of the trees fell on a cow and killed it.
January 2002Thunderstorm WindTibbie$15,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines east of Tibbie. One of the limbs from a fallen tree fell on a moving vehicle and damaged the windshield.
March 2019Tornado (EF1)Tibbie$10,000The tornado touched down just west of Highway 17, 3 miles south of Chatom. The tornado crossed Highway 17 and continued east into a more forested areas. The path length is an estimate as a final end point could not be determined due to the lack of road access. The tornado produced EF-1 damage to both softwood and hardwood, some of which were snapped.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindTibbie$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and produced minor roof damage to a couple of homes.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindTibbie$1,500Trees were blown down near Tibbie. A couple of outside antennas were also blown down. Wind gusts were estimated at around 60 mph.
January 1997Thunderstorm WindTibbie$1,500no account filed
February 2025Thunderstorm WindTibbie-Trees and power lines down in Tibbie.
March 2005HailTibbie-no account filed
April 2003HailTibbie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Uniform1.2 miles14
Seaboard4.2 miles14
Rutan6.2 miles14
Chatom7.1 miles11
Topton7.4 miles14
Four Point7.4 miles11
Vinegar Bend8.5 miles11
Fruitdale8.5 miles12

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 TibbieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1274967The 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 127959. 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.