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.
Population over time
2 figuresTwin 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 399 | |
| 2020 | 359 | -40 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Brilliant quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
122 since 1994Regional 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/incendiarism | 50 |
| Debris and open burning | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20180904-3 |
| 24 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190920-9 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Hail | Twin | - | Quarter-size hail was reported in the Twin area. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin | - | 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 2022 | Hail | Twin | - | Large hail reported in the community of Twin. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin | - | Several trees uprooted along County Road 61. |
| November 2016 | Tornado (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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin | - | Trees blocking road at the intersection of Highway 253 and Highway 44. |
| January 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin | - | 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin | - | A tree was uprooted in the Twin Community. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Twin | - | Reported along US-78 and SR-44, north of Winfield. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Twin | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yampertown | 0.0 miles | 11 | |
| New Hope | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Stinson | 2.9 miles | 10 | |
| Gu-Win | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Pull Tight | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Pea Ridge | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Guin | 4.1 miles | 9 | |
| Tucker | 5.0 miles | 11 |
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 Twin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1291203 | 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 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.





