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Moodys Chapel, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Altoona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35952. It stands on Byrd Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hyatt Gap quadrangle.

Moodys Chapel within Etowah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

81 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Moodys Chapel between 1994 and 2019, burning about 746 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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
Debris and open burning28
Arson/incendiarism26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-10
21 September 2016Smoking3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160921-4
20 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Moodys Chapel: 12 past producers, 8 unknowns, 8 occurrences, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Nickel, Cobalt, Cobalt. 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
Cook MineManganese, CobaltPast ProducerPsilomelane, Pyrolusite, Wad
No Name GivenNickel, CobaltOccurrence
Bynum MineManganesePast Producer1876
Collier-Edge DepositManganesePast Producer1942
J.B.BynumManganesePast Producer1924
KirkpatrickManganesePast Producer
Not Known, Walnut Gove AreaManganesePast ProducerResidual
Tumlin Gap Manganese ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Unnamed MineManganesePast Producer
Unnamed ProspectManganeseOccurrence

Every working recorded in Etowah 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
Nix (historical)0.9 miles21
Altoona2.1 miles22
Schuler (historical)2.5 miles22
Nash (historical)2.7 miles21
Clear Springs (historical)3.1 miles21
Bethlehem3.2 miles21
Mauldin (historical)3.3 miles21
Pana3.3 miles22

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 Q122559433The 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 149084. 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.