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Exmoor, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sweet Water census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36782. It stands on Lewis Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sweet Water quadrangle. It stands 125 feet above sea level.

Exmoor within Marengo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

98 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Exmoor between 1994 and 2019, burning about 761 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Debris and open burning36
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
28 September 2019Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190928-6
17 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-12
12 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-11
27 August 2000Debris and open burning40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190708-3
28 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined86 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Exmoor in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 1 tornado, 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
January 2022Thunderstorm WindExmoor-Several trees snapped near the intersection of County Roads 6 and 7.
December 2012Tornado (EF1)Exmoor-An EF-1 tornado touched down southwest of Dixons Mill on Hoboken Road. The tornado tracked north northeastward and crossed County Road 6, County Road 8 and Highway 10. The tornado lifted after it crossed Highway 10 along Southern Pines Drive. Very minimal structural damage was noted along the path. The damage was mainly limited to numerous trees that were either snapped or uprooted. Several people witnessed the tornado.

Every storm recorded in Marengo 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
Hoboken2.1 miles10
Vangale2.5 miles10
Sweet Water2.8 miles10
Coxheath2.9 miles10
Marengo3.2 miles10
Nicholsville3.6 miles10
Dixons Mills4.6 miles10
Aimwell4.8 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 ExmoorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14679094The 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 118090. 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.