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Woodland, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Woodland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36280. The Survey maps it on the Wedowee quadrangle. 221 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.

Woodland within Randolph County

Population over time

2 figures

Woodland grew from 184 to 221 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
2010184
2020221+37 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

159 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Woodland between 1994 and 2019, burning about 820 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 33 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 burning74
Arson/incendiarism33
Recreation and ceremony20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2010Debris and open burning9.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2016Debris and open burning3.8 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160905-4
29 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2016Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-12
23 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCO.RD.59, AL
2 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodland in 16 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning. 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
June 2005LightningWoodland$60,000Lightning struck a home in the Woodland community on County Road 464. The subsequent fire burned the house down to the ground. The residents of the home were able to escape without injury.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindWoodland$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were knocked down near the city of Woodland.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWoodland$2,000A few small trees were blown down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWoodland$2,000Several trees were blown down in the northeast part of Randolph County.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWoodland$2,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindWoodland$1,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWoodland$500A few trees were downed in the Woodland area.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindWoodland-Numerous trees uprooted and power lines downed in the community of Woodlands.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindWoodland-Several trees uprooted in the town of Woodland.
July 2018HailWoodland-Quarter sized hail reported near the town of Woodland.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWoodland-Woodland High School lunchroom roof lifted off along with numerous trees uprooted and power lines downed in the town of Woodland. Trees uprooted across Randolph County.
March 2003HailWoodland-Penny size hail was observed in the Woodland area.
July 2000HailWoodland-Dime size hail was reported near Woodland.
April 2006HailWoodland-no account filed
April 2006HailWoodland-no account filed
May 2003HailWoodland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Lamar1.6 miles12
Curt1.6 miles10
Liberty Grove2.1 miles10
Providence2.2 miles13
Cambridge3.2 miles12
Rocky Branch3.5 miles10
New Hope3.5 miles10
Peace3.6 miles10

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 WoodlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66886The 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 129193. 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.

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.