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Woodstock, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the West Blocton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35188. The Survey maps it on the Woodstock quadrangle. 1,472 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 563 feet above sea level.

Woodstock within Bibb County

Population over time

2 figures

Woodstock grew from 1,428 to 1,472 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
20101,428
20201,472+44 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

227 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Woodstock between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,384 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 64 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 burning89
Arson/incendiarism64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony23
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
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
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20130903-001
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1994Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Woodstock: 20 unknowns, 13 past producers, 12 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, 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
Woodstock Brown Iron Ore DepositManganese, IronPast Producer1830, 1961
Cobern No. 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Woodstock MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Woodstock QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bibb CountyIronUnknown
BushIronUnknown
EdwardsIronUnknown
GilesIronUnknown
GreenpondIronUnknown
HayesIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Bibb County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodstock in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2000Thunderstorm WindWoodstock$10,000Several trees were knocked down and one restaurant received minor roof damage in Woodstock.
July 2004HailWoodstock-Penny size hail was reported in the town of Woodstock.
May 1999HailWoodstock-Dime to nickel size hail fell in Woodstock.
June 2019HailWoodstock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bibb 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
North Bibb0.3 miles19
Blockton Junc0.4 miles19
Academy Park0.6 miles19
Woodstock Junction1.0 miles19
Bibbville1.7 miles19
Giles1.7 miles19
Green Pond1.8 miles19
Big Springs (historical)3.0 miles19

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 WoodstockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q987509The 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 129218. 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.