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Warrior, Alabama

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Warrior census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35180. The Survey maps it on the Warrior quadrangle. 3,224 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 564 feet above sea level.

Warrior within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Warrior grew from 3,176 to 3,224 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
20103,176
20203,224+48 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

1 photograph,

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.

Miller Electric Generating Plant, Warrior River, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Miller Electric Generating Plant, Warrior River, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

261 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 261 fires within 5 miles of Warrior between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,396 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 50 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined92
Debris and open burning77
Arson/incendiarism50
Recreation and ceremony18
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Smoking1

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
9 September 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2010Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warrior in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 (EF1)Warrior$5,300,000A tornado developed along a Quasi-Linear Convective System. It touched down in far northern Jefferson County, northeast of Warrior, and tracked northeastward into Blount County and across the western bank of Mountain Woods Lake before it lifted northeast of Sagefield Rd. The damage along the Jefferson County portion of the track was consistent with an EF1 rating with winds of 95 mph. The tornado touched down east of Old Hayden Rd, and tracked northeast where it downed dozens of trees along Mabel Dr. This resulted in damage to several homes. The tornado moved into Blount County near Sibleyville Rd.
May 2009Tornado (EF1)Warrior$50,000The tornado briefly touched down in the Albritton Road and Sparks Drive area near Warrior. Several large hardwood trees were uprooted, and several pines were snapped. Some of the trees fell onto and caused damage to houses. Several other homes in the area lost roof shingles.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindWarrior$25,000Much of Jefferson County was affected by a strong thunderstorm with wind gusts to hurricane force and large hail. Dime and nickel-size hail was reported in Gardendale. Trees were downed in scattered areas especially across the northern two-thirds of Jefferson County. Trees were uprooted in Bluff Park, a tree fell on a car near downtown Birmingham in the University of Alabama at Birmingham area, and numerous trees were down in the Roebuck area of northeast Birmingham. All of the Birmingham television stations on Red Mountain were knocked off the air by the high wind and the large WBRC sign at Channel 6 was destroyed. The buildings at Channel 6 and 13 suffered minor damage. Most of the radio stations located along Red Mountain were also off the air for a period of time. More than 99,000 electric customers were without power after the storm. A security guard was injured when he was struck in the knee with a piece of flying metal. A woman had to have the tip of her finger amputated when the wind slammed a car door on her finger. A woman was injured at the Birmingham Zoo when a tree limb fell on her arm. Wind at the Birmingham Airport was measured from the northwest at 71 miles an hour at 1312 CST.
February 2004Flash FloodWarrior$8,000no account filed
April 2007Thunderstorm WindWarrior$5,000Trees were blown down and shingles were blown off the roof.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWarrior$4,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Warrior.
June 1997HailWarrior$3,000Three-quarter inch hail was reported near the New Bethel community, in the northern part of the county.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWarrior$3,000no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindWarrior$2,000Trees and power lines down in Corner on Corner School Road.
April 1997HailWarrior$2,000Dime sized hail was reported covering the ground in Warrior.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWarrior-Several trees uprooted on Warrior-Trafford Road.
April 2021HailWarrior-Quarter size hail in the city of Warrior.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindWarrior-Several trees uprooted along Arkadelphia Road near the intersection of Mountain High Road.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindWarrior-Several trees uprooted near the town of Warrior.
August 2017Flash FloodWarrior-Several roads flooded and impassable in and near the town of Warrior. Roads include Highway 31 at Dana Road, Cane Creek Road, and Highway 31 near Elliot Drive.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindWarrior-Approximately a dozen trees were reported down in the town of Warrior.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindWarrior-A trained spotter measured a wind gust to 60 mph on Cane Creek Road, in Warrior.
April 2006HailWarrior-Reported in New Bethel.
April 1995HailWarrior-Three-quarter inch hail covered the ground in Warrior. Trees about two feet in diameter were downed in Gardendale.
March 1994Thunderstorm WindWarrior-Thunderstorm wind estimated at 60 miles an hour downed trees and powerlines in the Warrior area.
March 2017HailWarrior-no account filed
March 2012HailWarrior-no account filed
August 2008HailWarrior-no account filed
April 2006HailWarrior-no account filed
August 2002HailWarrior-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Seloca1.2 miles26
Coaldale1.3 miles26
Linton1.4 miles26
Cherokee Estates1.4 miles26
Parker Hudson Estates1.5 miles26
Cane Creek2.1 miles26
Beltona2.3 miles26
Kimberly2.8 miles26

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 WarriorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79521The 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 128594. 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.