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.
Population over time
2 figuresWest 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 586 | |
| 2020 | 584 | -2 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1888 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
93 since 1997Regional 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 burning | 42 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190924-6 |
| 24 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160924-16 |
| 22 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190922-21 |
| 22 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190922-11 |
| 20 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190920-14 |
| 19 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 1963 CR 1135, AL |
| 17 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20180917-1 |
| 17 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 48 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dripping Springs | 2.4 miles | 11 | |
| Central | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Centerville | 3.0 miles | 20 | |
| Spring Hill | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Bethel | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Pine Hill | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Southern Pines | 3.8 miles | 17 | |
| Longview | 4.0 miles | 20 |
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 Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q67870 | 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 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.







