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.
Population over time
2 figuresTibbie 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 41 | |
| 2020 | 55 | +14 (+34%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1943 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Seaboard quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
133 since 1994Regional 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/incendiarism | 42 |
| Debris and open burning | 38 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 80 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 30 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Lightning | Tibbie | 1 hurt | Lightning 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tibbie | $25,000 | High 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tibbie | $15,000 | High 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 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Tibbie | $10,000 | The 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tibbie | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and produced minor roof damage to a couple of homes. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tibbie | $1,500 | Trees were blown down near Tibbie. A couple of outside antennas were also blown down. Wind gusts were estimated at around 60 mph. |
| January 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tibbie | $1,500 | no account filed |
| February 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tibbie | - | Trees and power lines down in Tibbie. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Tibbie | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Tibbie | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniform | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| Seaboard | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Rutan | 6.2 miles | 14 | |
| Chatom | 7.1 miles | 11 | |
| Topton | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Four Point | 7.4 miles | 11 | |
| Vinegar Bend | 8.5 miles | 11 | |
| Fruitdale | 8.5 miles | 12 |
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 Tibbie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1274967 | 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 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.






