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Toxey, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Gilbertown-Toxey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36921. It stands on James Creek. The Survey maps it on the Toxey quadrangle. 145 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 105 feet above sea level.

Toxey within Choctaw County

Population over time

2 figures

Toxey grew from 137 to 145 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
2010137
2020145+8 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

68 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Toxey between 1994 and 2020, burning about 346 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200909-1
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190928-13
17 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1994Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2000Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw 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 Toxey: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Cho 8 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Choctaw County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toxey in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2007LightningToxey$60,000A house was destroyed when a lightning strike caused a fire. No injuries.
November 2001Tornado (F0)Toxey$25,000A weak tornado downed trees and power lines, and produced some minor roof damage, just northeast of Toxey.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindToxey$15,000Trees and power lines were blown down by high thunderstorm winds near Toxey.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindToxey$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down by high thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindToxey$10,000no account filed
August 2012Tornado (EF0)Toxey$5,000A weak tornado briefly touched downing a few trees near Toxey.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindToxey$5,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Toxey.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindToxey$3,000Wind damage reported in the community as a thunderstorm moved through.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindToxey$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds downed a few trees in the community.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindToxey$2,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed several large tree limbs.
March 2021Flash FloodToxey-Flooding on Chapel Hill Road from Toxey to Wimberly.
June 2017Flash FloodToxey-Mosley Bridge road was closed due to rushing water over the road.
July 1996Funnel CloudToxey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Choctaw 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
Hodgewood1.7 miles12
Gilbertown2.6 miles12
Old Samuel2.8 miles12
Jackson Spur3.0 miles12
Chappell Hill3.2 miles12
Wimbly3.2 miles12
Lusk4.0 miles12
Paragon4.3 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 ToxeyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66915The 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 128045. 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.