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Titus, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Titus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36080. It stands on Dunlap Creek. The Survey maps it on the Holtville quadrangle. It stands 466 feet above sea level.

Titus within Elmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

112 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Titus between 1994 and 2019, burning about 668 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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 burning39
Recreation and ceremony19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
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
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Arson/incendiarism93 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-21
17 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140917-001
16 September 1998Debris and open burning1.8 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Debris and open burning1.7 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Storms near this place

16 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Titus in 16 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 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
April 2003Thunderstorm WindTitus$600,000The supercell remained very strong over Elmore County. A large swath of wind and hail damage occurred across the county. Numerous trees were blown down from near Titus to near Tallassee. Hail was observed up to 2.50 inches in diameter. Funnel clouds and a roaring sound accompanied the storm.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindTitus$20,000One home had its roof blown off in Titus. Several trees were blown down across the county.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Titus$12,900A tornado touched down approximately 0.7 miles northeast of Titus, west of Grays Ferry Road in Elmore County. The tornado then moved northeast where it crossed Grays Ferry Road. Four barns were damaged and nearby outbuildings sustained roof damage. A carport also sustained damage, along with the cars that were parked under it. The tornado lifted in a wooded area east of Grays Ferry Road.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindTitus$2,000Several trees were blown down near the intersection of CR-29 and US-231.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindTitus$2,000Trees were blown down on Jackson Trace Road.
December 2011Thunderstorm WindTitus$1,000A tree was reported down along Law Road east of Welona.
December 2011Thunderstorm WindTitus$1,000A tree was reported down along Tyler Road 2 miles southwest of Titus.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindTitus-Trees were downed in the Titus area.
March 2023HailTitus-Two inch hail reported in the city of Titus.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindTitus-Multiple trees uprooted in Titus.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindTitus-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in the Titus community.
April 2021HailTitus-Quarter size hail reported in the Lightwood Community.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindTitus-Several trees uprooted along County Road 29.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindTitus-Several trees uprooted and power outages in the town of Titus.
May 2018Flash FloodTitus-Portions of River Road closed due to flowing water.
March 2019HailTitus-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
Weoka Mills2.3 miles16
Buyck3.3 miles16
Lightwood3.8 miles15
Ten Cedars Estates5.1 miles16
Coosa River5.2 miles16
Holtville5.3 miles16
Riddle5.4 miles16
Weoka7.1 miles16

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 TitusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14679528The 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 128000. 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.