Waverly, Alabama
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Waverly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36879. The Survey maps it on the Waverly quadrangle. 159 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWaverly grew from 145 to 159 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 | 145 | |
| 2020 | 159 | +14 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1906 USGS Dadeville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
77 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Waverly between 1994 and 2019, burning about 619 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined | 28 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 1998 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | CO RD 89, AL |
| 15 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 August 2007 | Natural | 45 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waverly in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 1 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Hail | Waverly | $8,000 | no account filed |
| November 2016 | Tornado (EF1) | Waverly | - | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in extreme northern Lee County and extreme southern Chambers County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF-1 tornado, with maximum winds estimated near 90 mph.||This tornado entered southern Chambers County from Lee County about one mile west of Highway 147. The tornado traveled northeast and crossed County Road 21. Numerous hardwood and softwood trees were uprooted and snapped near County Road 21. The tornado lifted just north of County Road 21. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jones Mill | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| New Harmony | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Culebra | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Judson | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Sturkie | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Oak Bowery | 7.6 miles | 12 | |
| Kendall Crossroads | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Moorefield | 9.5 miles | 12 |
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 Waverly | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q68101 | 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 153904. 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.





