BlockMoores Valley, Alabama
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Dixons Mill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36769. It stands on Baptizing Creek. The Survey maps it on the Surginer quadrangle. It stands 128 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Surginer quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
87 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Moores Valley between 1994 and 2019, burning about 743 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190916-7 |
| 16 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160916-10 |
| 15 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Moores Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14679306 | The 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 156734. 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.