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Moodys Crossroads, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Luverne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36049. The Survey maps it on the Moodys Crossroads quadrangle.

Moodys Crossroads within Crenshaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Moodys Crossroads between 1994 and 2018, burning about 672 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
30 September 2003Debris and open burning16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 10, AL
12 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20170912-1
25 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 1996Natural1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 June 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission93 BLAZING B TRAIL, AL
5 June 2006Debris and open burning18 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crenshaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Moodys Crossroads: 25 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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
Crenshaw County Brown Iron Ore DepositsIron, ManganesePast Producer1939
Carl F Parrish ProspectIronProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Crenshaw 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
Robinson Crossroads1.0 miles7
Ivy Creek2.5 miles7
Cherokee Village3.1 miles7
Centenary3.4 miles7
Rutledge4.5 miles7
Center Ridge5.7 miles7
Vernledge6.0 miles7
Luverne7.0 miles7

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 Moodys CrossroadsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85786224The 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 122976. 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.