Mooresville, Alabama
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mooresville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35649. It stands on Limestone Slough. The Survey maps it on the Tanner quadrangle. 47 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 574 feet above sea level.
On record in Mooresville
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Mooresvillelisted 1972
Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records
- Henry Zeitler House, High Street, Mooresvillefederal building survey, 5 photographs
- High Street (Old Tavern), Mooresvillefederal building survey, 4 photographs
- Hundley House, Market Street, Mooresvillefederal building survey, 4 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresMooresville fell from 53 to 47 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 53 | |
| 2020 | 47 | -6 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 22 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.
- 1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1936 USGS Tanner quadrangle1:24000
- 1938 USGS Tanner quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Tanner quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Photographs
3 photographs,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
42 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Mooresville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 368 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190909-7 |
| 7 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 85 acres | Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge | FM 97-8 |
| 30 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190930-4 |
| 20 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 28 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190920-27 |
| 19 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge | FM 97-9 |
| 16 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mooresville in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mooresville | $45,000 | Several trees were reported down on Power Road in Belle Mina. A power pole was broken by the wind in Greenbrier. Two airplanes were flipped over by the wind at the Mooresville Airport east of the city. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mooresville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Lightning | Mooresville | $5,000 | Lightning sparked a brush fire on Riverton Road in Mooresville. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mooresville | $5,000 | Numerous large trees were down just south of Mooresville. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mooresville | $1,000 | Multiple trees were knocked down on Swancott at Pryor Road. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mooresville | - | Signs were blown down along with other debris found in the area. |
| March 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mooresville | - | Trees and power lines were knocked down near I-565 and Mooresville Road. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mooresville | - | Power lines were knocked down onto a house in the 200 block of Highway 20. |
| February 2005 | Flash Flood | Mooresville | - | Water covering I-565 in Eastern Limestone County. |
| March 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mooresville | - | Two trees blown down. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Mooresville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweetwater | 1.9 miles | 22 | |
| Belle Mina | 2.0 miles | 22 | |
| Irvington | 2.7 miles | 22 | |
| Greenbrier | 3.5 miles | 25 | |
| Whiteside | 3.8 miles | 22 | |
| New Hope | 4.3 miles | 24 | |
| Decatur Junction | 4.8 miles | 22 | |
| Salem Corner | 5.0 miles | 22 |
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 Mooresville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q65804 | 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 123033. 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.
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.









