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Moore Town, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Livingston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35470. The Survey maps it on the Brewersville quadrangle.

Moore Town within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Moore Town between 1995 and 2016, burning about 79 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 August 1996Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined44 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 28 EAST, AL
19 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150619-002
30 May 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 May 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 March 2000Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter 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
Zion Hill2.4 miles13
Brewersville2.5 miles13
Bluffport3.0 miles13
Old Bluffport3.9 miles13
Arrington (historical)4.6 miles11
Lilita4.8 miles9
Livingston4.8 miles13
Coatopa5.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 123021. 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.