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Twin, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Guin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35563. It stands on Cooper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brilliant quadrangle. 359 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Twin within Marion County

Population over time

2 figures

Twin fell from 399 to 359 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
2010399
2020359-40 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

122 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Twin between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,116 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 50 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/incendiarism50
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural3
Smoking1

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
5 September 2000Natural3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2018Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180904-3
24 September 2010Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-9

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twin in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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
May 2025HailTwin-Quarter-size hail was reported in the Twin area.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindTwin-The general manager of the Holiday Inn hotel along I-22 shared images of damage to the building involving the cornice, a section of which was blown apart. Several trees were downed around Twin as well.
October 2022HailTwin-Large hail reported in the community of Twin.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindTwin-Several trees uprooted along County Road 61.
November 2016Tornado (EF0)Twin-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southern Marion County near Twin and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF-0 tornado, with maximum winds estimated near 75 mph.||The tornado touched down about 3 miles north of Gu-Win, or just southwest of the Twin Community on County Road 250. The tornado damage was light and mainly consisted of tree and tree branch damage northeastward across County Road 3, Alabama Highway 253 and up to Interstate 22. The tornado proceeded northeastward and crossed County Road 95, County Road 36 and Vinston Road. More tree and tree branch damage was done on this part of the path. The tornado then passed Piney Grove Road, Alabama Highway 129 and lifted near County Road 170. More light tree damage occurred and a few outbuildings sustained damage in this area.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTwin-Trees blocking road at the intersection of Highway 253 and Highway 44.
January 2015Thunderstorm WindTwin-Numerous trees uprooted and power lines downed beginning near the intersection of County Road 45 south of Highway 78 and continuing northeast along County Road 45 to the community of Pea Ridge.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindTwin-A tree was uprooted in the Twin Community.
April 2007HailTwin-Reported along US-78 and SR-44, north of Winfield.
May 2012HailTwin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Yampertown0.0 miles11
New Hope2.7 miles11
Stinson2.9 miles10
Gu-Win3.3 miles9
Pull Tight4.0 miles11
Pea Ridge4.1 miles11
Guin4.1 miles9
Tucker5.0 miles11

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 TwinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1291203The 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 2380589. 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.