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Moorefield, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Waverly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36862. The Survey maps it on the Moorefield quadrangle.

Moorefield within Chambers County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

78 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Moorefield between 1995 and 2019, burning about 598 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
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
6 September 1997Debris and open burning11 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180923-4
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-29
16 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-12
15 September 1998Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Moorefield: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Clay, Mica, Gold. 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
Doc Heard ProspectMicaPast Producer
Rippatoe PlacerGoldPast Producer
Unnamed OccurrenceAluminum, ClayOccurrence1982
Unnamed OccurrenceAluminum, ClayOccurrence1982
Unnamed OccurrenceAluminum, ClayOccurrence1982

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moorefield in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 2 hail. 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
March 2023HailMoorefield-Golf ball size hail reported on County Road 50 southwest of Lafayette.
March 2011HailMoorefield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Boyds2.2 miles12
Sturkie2.3 miles12
Liberty Crossroads2.3 miles12
Kendall Crossroads3.4 miles12
Culebra4.9 miles12
Oak Bowery5.2 miles12
Blackman5.3 miles12
New Harmony5.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 123023. 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.

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.