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Whitesboro, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mountainboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35956. It stands on Jacob Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rodentown quadrangle. 2,113 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.

Whitesboro within Etowah County

Population over time

2 figures

Whitesboro fell from 2,138 to 2,113 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
20102,138
20202,113-25 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

110 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Whitesboro between 1997 and 2019, burning about 682 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 43 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 burning49
Arson/incendiarism43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
7 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-23
29 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160927-6
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Whitesboro: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Leed Gap AreaIronPast ProducerHematite
Not KnownIronPast ProducerHematite

Every working recorded in Etowah County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitesboro in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWhitesboro$5,000A tree was blown down and blocked a roadway in Mountainboro. There were also trees reported down on Duck Springs Road and on Sardis Road.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWhitesboro$1,000Several trees were blown down from thunderstorm outflow.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWhitesboro-A few trees uprooted on Leeth Gap Road.
April 2014Tornado (EF3)Whitesboro-The tornado initially touched down just south of Brow Road, about 4.5 miles east of Sardis City, snapping and uprooting many trees. The tornado rapidly intensified as it tracked northeast. Severe damage occurred along Liberty Hill Road where a home was lifted off its block foundation and moved about 60-80 feet from its original location. Despite this, most of the exterior walls (and even a portion of the roof) remained intact. Numerous trees around this property were snapped near the base indicating very strong winds. Several manufactured homes were completely destroyed in this area as well. Two other homes sustained significant roof loss and exterior wall damage. Along Horton Gap Road, a two-story home was destroyed with just a few interior walls left standing. Much of the debris was thrown several hundred yards away from its original location and trees were ripped out of the ground and thrown. Just northeast of this location, a large wood-framed chicken house was destroyed. At these locations, the tornado was at its peak intensity with winds estimated between 135 and 155 mph. On either side of the center line track, damage was seen along Owens Road (west of the track) and Roden Road (east of the track), as a result of inflow into the storm. Structural damage along these roads resulted in loss of roof and exterior walls/side panels as well as numerous trees snapped or uprooted. The tornado crossed into Dekalb County near the intersection of Gene Burns Rd and County Road 4.

Every storm recorded in Etowah 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
Smiths Chapel0.9 miles22
Pulltight1.6 miles22
Happy Hill1.6 miles22
Smith Institute1.8 miles22
Royse (historical)1.9 miles22
Rollins (historical)1.9 miles22
Leath Gap (historical)2.0 miles22
Haworth (historical)2.0 miles22

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 WhitesboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1263390The 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 128915. 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.