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West Point, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Logan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35057. It stands on Little Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Point quadrangle. 584 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

West Point within Cullman County

Population over time

2 figures

West Point fell from 586 to 584 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
2010586
2020584-2 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

93 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of West Point between 1997 and 2020, burning about 678 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
24 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-6
24 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-16
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-21
22 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-11
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-14
19 September 2011Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1963 CR 1135, AL
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use25 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180917-1
17 September 2010Debris and open burning48 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman 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
Dripping Springs2.4 miles11
Central2.8 miles11
Centerville3.0 miles20
Spring Hill3.1 miles17
Bethel3.3 miles17
Pine Hill3.7 miles17
Southern Pines3.8 miles17
Longview4.0 miles20

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 West PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67870The 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 128791. 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.