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Moffet, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Semmes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36587. It stands on Scarbo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Howell quadrangle.

Moffet within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

314 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Moffet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,558 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 113 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/incendiarism113
Debris and open burning99
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Recreation and ceremony19
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
5 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresMississippi Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMississippi Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMississippi Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20120927-001
26 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-5
25 September 1999Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresMississippi Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moffet in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 flash flood. 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
May 2008Flash FloodMoffet-no account filed

Every storm 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
Warley2.5 miles19
Wilmer2.9 miles19
Fairview6.6 miles19
Georgetown7.1 miles20
Boothetown7.4 miles20
Millertown7.7 miles19
Lott8.3 miles19
Churchill Downs8.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122557212The 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 156725. 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.