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Le Moyne, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Mobile census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36505. The Survey maps it on the Creola quadrangle. 976 people lived here at the last count. It stands 39 feet above sea level.

Le Moyne within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

157 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Le Moyne between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,168 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 70 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
Arson/incendiarism70
Debris and open burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140907-001
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150906-002
27 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2014Natural60 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140812-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Le Moyne: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay. 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
Axis Clay QuarryClayProducer
Axis MineSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerClay, Quartz

Every working recorded in Mobile 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
Salco0.7 miles22
Axis2.0 miles22
Barry Village2.8 miles22
Bucks3.6 miles16
Hatters4.0 miles22
Creola4.6 miles22
Stage Coach Woods5.0 miles16
Chastang5.5 miles16

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 Le MoyneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3224841The 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 155967. 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.