Uriah, Alabama
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Uriah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36480. It stands on Hurricane Branch. The Survey maps it on the Uriah West quadrangle. 263 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 351 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresUriah fell from 294 to 263 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 | 294 | |
| 2020 | 263 | -31 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Uriah West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
85 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Uriah between 1994 and 2019, burning about 561 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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 | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20130915-001 |
| 10 September 2019 | Natural | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190910-1 |
| 31 August 1995 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uriah in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uriah | $100,000 | Widespread tree and structural damage occurred as a line of thunderstorms with an intense bow echo, or downburst, moved across the area. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uriah | $40,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uriah | $20,000 | Winds estimated at 70 mph damaged about a dozen homes. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uriah | $10,000 | High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Uriah. One of the fallen trees damaged a vehicle. |
| November 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uriah | $10,000 | Several trees were blown over, and high winds damaged the skirting around a mobile home, south of Uriah and near the Little River State Park. |
| January 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uriah | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uriah | $5,000 | Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees and power lines. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uriah | $5,000 | Winds estimated at 70 mph downed trees and powerlines. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uriah | $5,000 | Winds estimated at 60 mph blew down trees in several areas across southern Monroe county. |
| February 2022 | Flash Flood | Uriah | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding on Parker Lane in Uriah. |
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uriah | - | Roof damage on a small barn. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Uriah | - | Trees were downed by severe thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| November 2006 | Flash Flood | Uriah | - | Slow moving thunderstorms brought heavy rains to the south part of the county. Rainfall totals were around 3-4 inches across the area. Several roads had to be closed due to high water from the heavy rain. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Uriah | - | Penny to Half Dollar sized hail covered the ground, forcing the closing of Highway 21 near Uriah for a short time before the Highway Department cleared the roadway. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Uriah | - | Heavy rains across the south part of the county caused State Highway 21 to flood. The highway between Uriah and Megargel had to be closed for about an hour due to high water. Rainfall totals of around four inches in an hour were estimated. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Uriah | - | Heavy rains from a cluster of thunderstorms caused street flooding between Uriah and Monroeville. Several secondary roads in this area had to be closed as they became impassable. The water drained after the storms had dissipated. Rainfall totals of five to seven inches in a two hour period were measured across the area. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Uriah | - | Golfball size hail was again reported in the south part of Monroe county, near Uriah. |
| April 1997 | Hail | Uriah | - | Quarter size hail was reported in the southwest part of the county, near Uriah. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Uriah | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Uriah | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Uriah | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Uriah | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Uriah | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Uriah | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Uriah | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeddo | 2.0 miles | 8 | |
| Palmers Crossroads | 2.5 miles | 8 | |
| Goodway | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Megargel | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Homewood | 6.8 miles | 8 | |
| Mineola | 7.2 miles | 8 | |
| Manistee | 9.4 miles | 9 | |
| Grove Hill | 9.9 miles | 7 |
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 Uriah | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q576492 | 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 153822. 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.



