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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.

Uriah within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Uriah 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.

YearPeople Change
2010294
2020263-31 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

85 since 1994

Regional 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2013Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20130915-001
10 September 2019Natural20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190910-1
31 August 1995Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

25 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2001Thunderstorm WindUriah$100,000Widespread tree and structural damage occurred as a line of thunderstorms with an intense bow echo, or downburst, moved across the area.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindUriah$40,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindUriah$20,000Winds estimated at 70 mph damaged about a dozen homes.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindUriah$10,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Uriah. One of the fallen trees damaged a vehicle.
November 2001Thunderstorm WindUriah$10,000Several 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 1997Thunderstorm WindUriah$10,000no account filed
March 2016Thunderstorm WindUriah$5,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees and power lines.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindUriah$5,000Winds estimated at 70 mph downed trees and powerlines.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindUriah$5,000Winds estimated at 60 mph blew down trees in several areas across southern Monroe county.
February 2022Flash FloodUriah-Heavy rain caused flash flooding on Parker Lane in Uriah.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindUriah-Roof damage on a small barn.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindUriah-Trees were downed by severe thunderstorm wind gusts.
November 2006Flash FloodUriah-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 2003HailUriah-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 2003Flash FloodUriah-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 2003Flash FloodUriah-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 1998HailUriah-Golfball size hail was again reported in the south part of Monroe county, near Uriah.
April 1997HailUriah-Quarter size hail was reported in the southwest part of the county, near Uriah.
April 2022HailUriah-no account filed
April 2022HailUriah-no account filed
April 2022HailUriah-no account filed
August 2020HailUriah-no account filed
June 2011HailUriah-no account filed
August 2006HailUriah-no account filed
May 2003HailUriah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Jeddo2.0 miles8
Palmers Crossroads2.5 miles8
Goodway4.6 miles8
Megargel6.5 miles9
Homewood6.8 miles8
Mineola7.2 miles8
Manistee9.4 miles9
Grove Hill9.9 miles7

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 UriahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q576492The 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.