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Yellow Bluff, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pine Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36769. It sits by Walnut Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Coy quadrangle. 208 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 102 feet above sea level.

Yellow Bluff within Wilcox County

Population over time

2 figures

Yellow Bluff grew from 188 to 208 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
2010188
2020208+20 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

61 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Yellow Bluff between 1994 and 2020, burning about 462 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2

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 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20130907-007
7 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20130907-008
7 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20130907-009
7 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20130907-010
6 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.3 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined32 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Yellow Bluff: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Kyanite, Titanium, Metal. 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
Alabama River Gravel-Wilcox CoSand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Kyanite, Titanium, MetalProducerPlacer

Every working recorded in Wilcox County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yellow Bluff in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
March 1996Thunderstorm WindYellow Bluff$7,500no account filed
March 2012HailYellow Bluff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wilcox 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
Coal Bluff2.2 miles7
MacMillan2.9 miles7
Sheppard3.9 miles7
Coy5.0 miles7
Rockwest5.6 miles8
Pine Hill6.4 miles7
Nellie6.4 miles7
Kimbrough6.9 miles9

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 Yellow BluffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65625The 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 157287. 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.