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Uniontown, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Uniontown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36786. The Survey maps it on the Uniontown West quadrangle. 2,107 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 299 feet above sea level.

Uniontown within Perry County

On record in Uniontown

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Uniontown grew from 1,775 to 2,107 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
20101,775
20202,107+332 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Photographs

4 photographs, 1941

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Herding cattle in Hale county. Near Uniontown, Alabama
Herding cattle in Hale county. Near Uniontown, Alabama
Delano, Jack, 1941. Library of Congress
Masonic Hall, Water Avenue & North Street, Uniontown, Perry County, AL
Masonic Hall, Water Avenue & North Street, Uniontown, Perry County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Pitts' Folly, House & Outbuildings, State Highway 21, Uniontown, Perry County, AL
Pitts' Folly, House & Outbuildings, State Highway 21, Uniontown, Perry County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Westwood, Water Avenue (State Highway 61), Uniontown, Perry County, AL
Westwood, Water Avenue (State Highway 61), Uniontown, Perry County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Uniontown between 1994 and 2020, burning about 522 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2005Debris and open burning34 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190904-4
4 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use32 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140921-001
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150918-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uniontown in 16 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2011Tornado (EF2)Uniontown$645,000A tornado touched down in Smith County, Mississippi and tracked through Jasper and Clarke Counties (See Storm Data Jackson), where it caused EF4 rated damage. The tornado then crossed into Choctaw County (See Storm Data Mobile) Alabama, where it caused EF3 rated damage. The tornado tracked across portions of Sumter, Marengo and western Perry Counties, before it dissipated. The tornado crossed into Perry County north of Uniontown and produced significant tree damage. The tornado crossed AL Hwy 183, where it damaged two outbuildings and destroyed a grain silo. The tornado lifted east of AL Hwy 183, northeast of Uniontown.
May 2003HailUniontown$250,000no account filed
October 2001Tornado (F1)Uniontown$110,000A small tornado touched down just southwest of Uniontown in an open area and traveled north-northeast across the western portions of Uniontown. The tornado ended just north-northwest of Uniontown in an open area. The tornado tore shingles off several houses in the southwest section of Uniontown in addition to downing trees and power lines. The tornado did similar damage to residential structures in the northwest portion of Uniontown. A one-story apartment complex lost a portion of it's roof. Several trees fell on homes and blocked residential streets. Beginning: 32 26.587/87 31.219 End: 32 27.857/87 30.951
December 2000Thunderstorm WindUniontown$15,000A few trees were knocked down in Uniontown. One of the trees fell onto a carport and smashed a car.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindUniontown$10,000Scattered trees and powerlines were downed in Uniontown.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindUniontown$5,000no account filed
July 2005Flash FloodUniontown$4,000Broadway Avenue and County Road 26 were flooded and were temporarily impassable.
December 2000HailUniontown$4,000Golf ball size was reported by the Uniontown Police Department.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindUniontown$2,000Several trees were blown down across roadways in Uniontown.
April 2005HailUniontown$1,000Penny size hail fell in and around Uniontown.
April 2005HailUniontown$1,000Quarter size hail was reported in and near Uniontown.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindUniontown-Multiple trees were blown down around Uniontown.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindUniontown-Several trees were blown down near the intersection of Buster Sealy Road and Alabama Highway 183.
April 2003HailUniontown-Nickel size hail was reported in and around Uniontown. The hail may have been much larger in surrounding rural areas.
April 2022HailUniontown-no account filed
April 2007HailUniontown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Rabbityard0.5 miles11
Ellawhite1.1 miles9
The Village1.1 miles9
Hillcrest2.1 miles9
Tayloe4.0 miles9
Freetown4.2 miles11
Sugarville6.9 miles9
Vaiden9.0 miles9

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 UniontownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79421The 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 153806. 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.