BlockWhite Hall, Alabama
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lowndesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36752. The Survey maps it on the White Hall quadrangle. 806 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 184 feet above sea level.
On record in White Hall
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
- Campsite 2: Rosie Steele Propertylisted 2023
Population over time
2 figuresWhite Hall fell from 858 to 806 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 | 858 | |
| 2020 | 806 | -52 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Autaugaville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Autaugaville SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS White Hall quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
70 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of White Hall between 1994 and 2019, burning about 495 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 38 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 43 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.3 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190924-19 |
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 August 2000 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 August 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of White Hall: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White Hall Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| White Hall Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments |
Storms near this place
14 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Hall in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2005 | Tornado (F1) | White Hall | 1 hurt, $110,000 | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed the damage across northwestern Lowndes County. It was determined that the damage was the result of a tornado that has been rated F1 on the Fujita Scale. The tornado first touched down near Mount Gillard Church, near the Intersection of US 80 and CR 17 around 652 AM CDT. It stayed on the ground for only about a minute, before lifting around 653 AM CDT. The total path length was 1.6 miles with a width of 50 yards at its widest point. This path was parallel to CR 17, with most of the damage on the northwest side of the road. This tornado, with winds estimated around 100 mph, uprooted or snapped dozens of trees, damaged 2 mobile homes severely...produced minor damage to 3 homes and caused severe roof damage to another home. The side of one of the mobile homes was breached by an unidentified piece of debris, resulting in a 7 foot by 3 foot hole. The most substantial damage to a home consisted of approximately one third of the roof being blown off, which resulted in the partial collapse of an exterior wall. One middle aged man was injured in this home but did not seek medical treatment. Begin: 32 16.51/86 44.88 End: 32 17.17/86 43.49 |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Hall | $26,000 | Several trees were blown down across the eastern half of Lowndes County. This damage was not concentrated but was from the same line of storms that produced the damage near Mosses and White Hall. |
| April 2005 | Hail | White Hall | $5,000 | Hail up to the size of golf balls fell across northern Lowndes County. The was the second large hail producing storm to move across the same general area within a few hours. |
| April 2005 | Hail | White Hall | $5,000 | Hail up to the size of golf balls fell across extreme northern Lowndes County. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Hall | $3,000 | A few trees were blown down in and near White Hall. |
| April 2000 | Hail | White Hall | $3,000 | Quarter size hail was observed in White Hall. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Hall | $2,000 | A few trees were blown down near the White Hall Community. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Hall | $2,000 | Several trees and powerlines were downed in the Whitehall and Rudolph Communities. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Hall | $2,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down along CR 12 and CR 23 near White Hall. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Hall | $1,000 | A few trees were blown down north of the White Hall Community. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Hall | - | Multiple trees uprooted in the town of White Hall. |
| September 2011 | Flash Flood | White Hall | - | Water was reported across Henderson Road, making the road impassable. |
| March 2005 | Hail | White Hall | - | Penny size hail was reported near the White Hall community in northern Lowndes County. |
| April 2003 | Hail | White Hall | - | Supercell 6 continued across the rural terrain of northern Lowndes County. The largest hail size reported was quarters. This storm also produced small hail across southern Autauga County from pea to dime size around Autaugaville. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edsons | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Trickem | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Saint Clair | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Benton | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Petronia | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Hicks Hill | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Lowndesboro | 6.4 miles | 13 | |
| Robinsons | 8.1 miles | 13 |
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 White Hall | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q67309 | 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 153961. 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.