Valley Grande, Alabama
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Selma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36701. The Survey maps it on the Jones quadrangle. 4,190 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 259 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresValley Grande grew from 4,020 to 4,190 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 | 4,020 | |
| 2020 | 4,190 | +170 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1891 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Plantersville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Plantersville SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Jones quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
132 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Valley Grande between 1994 and 2020, burning about 927 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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 | 60 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 2607 MATTHEW LN, AL |
| 2 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190917-19 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Valley Grande: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas Sand and Gravel Co. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summerfield | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Valley Creek Junction | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Stonewall | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Manila | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Burnsville | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Lily Grove (historical) | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Brantley | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Selma | 7.2 miles | 15 |
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 Valley Grande | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79399 | 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 155519. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.








