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Weogufka, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Weogufka-Marble Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35183. It lies near Baxley Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Weogufka quadrangle. 207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Weogufka within Coosa County

On record in Weogufka

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Weogufka fell from 282 to 207 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
2010282
2020207-75 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

116 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Weogufka between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,864 acres in total. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism50
Debris and open burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3

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
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20150914-002
11 September 2010Arson/incendiarism32 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2006Natural6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2007Natural10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Weogufka: 6 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Graphite, Iron, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Abrams MineMicaPast Producer
Unnamed OccurrenceUranium, GraphiteOccurrence1974
Grimes Iron Ore MineIronPast Producer1932, 1935
Grimes Iron Ore MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Seminole MineGraphitePast Producer
Teel PropertyGraphiteOccurrence
Hatchet Creek PlacerGoldOccurrencePlacer
Hatchet Creek PlacerGoldProspect
Stewart MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Stewart's Au Mine Parson's MineGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Coosa County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weogufka in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 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 2011Flash FloodWeogufka$75,000County Road 56 and County Road 16 were flooded on Weogufka Creek.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWeogufka$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down in and near Weogufka.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindWeogufka$2,000Several trees and power lines were blown down across western Coosa County. The damage was mainly confined to rural areas.
February 1998HailWeogufka$2,000Hail the size of quarters was reported in Unity.
February 2025Tornado (EF0)Weogufka-The National Weather Service surveyed in northern Coosa County|and determined the damage to be consistent with an EF-0 tornado.|The tornado initially touched down along County Road 55, where a|few softwood trees were downed. The tornado caused significant|tree damage across a wooded area east of CR 55, with many|uprooted trees. Along Prater Rd, several softwood trees sustained|minor damage. From there, the tornado tracked east-northeast|crossing County Road 29, just north of the Weogufka Family|Worship Center. Here, several softwood trees were uprooted along|with several homes that received minor damage. The tornado|continued crossing County Road 41 where additional trees were|uprooted and power lines were damaged due to the tree fall. The|tornado then crossed Hwy 231 and 280, where softwood trees were|both uprooted and snapped, and some additional tin shed damage|was noted. Maximum winds were estimated at 80 mph.
May 2023HailWeogufka-Large hail removed leaves from trees with vegetation covering roadways.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindWeogufka-Several trees uprooted on Coosa County Road 29.
March 2021Tornado (EF0)Weogufka-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northwest Coosa County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 65 mph. The tornado began and ended around County Road 56. Damage was limited to an uprooted pine tree, and several trees had broken branches. A brief TDS was also noted on the BMX radar.
March 2019Tornado (EF0)Weogufka-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Coosa County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 70 mph.||This brief weak tornado was from the same storm that produced the EF0 tornado in far western Coosa County. The only damage observed consisted of snapped and uprooted trees.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindWeogufka-A few trees were uprooted in northern Coosa County near Weogufka.
May 2005HailWeogufka-Dime to penny size hail fell along and near US 231 east of Weogufka.
December 2005HailWeogufka-Quarter size hail was reported just north of Bozo's Fish Camp in extreme northwestern Coosa County at Lay Lake.
July 2002HailWeogufka-Quarter size hail was reported in Weogufka.
May 2001HailWeogufka-Dime size hail fell near Weogufka.

Every storm recorded in Coosa 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
Unity2.6 miles24
Gold Branch4.3 miles13
Bentleyville5.0 miles14
Strickland Crossroads5.1 miles25
Stewartville5.6 miles23
Weogufka (historical)5.7 miles14
Hanover5.9 miles23
Moriah6.0 miles14

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 WeogufkaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1275036The 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 158102. 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.

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.