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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Sweet Water quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
98 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 43 |
| Debris and open burning | 36 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190928-6 |
| 17 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190912-12 |
| 12 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190912-11 |
| 27 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190708-3 |
| 28 July 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 86 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2012Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Exmoor | - | Several trees snapped near the intersection of County Roads 6 and 7. |
| December 2012 | Tornado (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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoboken | 2.1 miles | 10 | |
| Vangale | 2.5 miles | 10 | |
| Sweet Water | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Coxheath | 2.9 miles | 10 | |
| Marengo | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Nicholsville | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Dixons Mills | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Aimwell | 4.8 miles | 10 |
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 Exmoor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14679094 | The 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.




