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.
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
Fairhope Plantationlisted 1992
Pitts' Follylisted 1984
Uniontown Historic Districtlisted 2000
Westwoodlisted 1974
Westwood (Boundary Increase)listed 1984
Westwood Plantation(Boundary Increase)listed 1984
Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records
- Masonic Hall, Water Avenue & North Street, Uniontownfederal building survey, 2 photographs
- Pitts' Folly, House & Outbuildings, State Highway 21, Uniontownfederal building survey, 23 photographs
- Westwood, Water Avenue (State Highway 61), Uniontownfederal building survey, 9 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresUniontown 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,775 | |
| 2020 | 2,107 | +332 (+19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Uniontown West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
4 photographs, 1941Taken 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.
Delano, Jack, 1941. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
45 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 34 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190904-4 |
| 4 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 32 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20140921-001 |
| 18 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20150918-002 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF2) | Uniontown | $645,000 | A 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 2003 | Hail | Uniontown | $250,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Uniontown | $110,000 | A 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | $15,000 | A few trees were knocked down in Uniontown. One of the trees fell onto a carport and smashed a car. |
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | $10,000 | Scattered trees and powerlines were downed in Uniontown. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Flash Flood | Uniontown | $4,000 | Broadway Avenue and County Road 26 were flooded and were temporarily impassable. |
| December 2000 | Hail | Uniontown | $4,000 | Golf ball size was reported by the Uniontown Police Department. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down across roadways in Uniontown. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Uniontown | $1,000 | Penny size hail fell in and around Uniontown. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Uniontown | $1,000 | Quarter size hail was reported in and near Uniontown. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | - | Multiple trees were blown down around Uniontown. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uniontown | - | Several trees were blown down near the intersection of Buster Sealy Road and Alabama Highway 183. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Uniontown | - | Nickel size hail was reported in and around Uniontown. The hail may have been much larger in surrounding rural areas. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Uniontown | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Uniontown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rabbityard | 0.5 miles | 11 | |
| Ellawhite | 1.1 miles | 9 | |
| The Village | 1.1 miles | 9 | |
| Hillcrest | 2.1 miles | 9 | |
| Tayloe | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Freetown | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Sugarville | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Vaiden | 9.0 miles | 9 |
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 Uniontown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79421 | 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 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.




