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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.

Mooresville within Limestone County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Mooresville 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.

YearPeople Change
201053
202047-6 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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.

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.

Henry Zeitler House, High Street, Mooresville, Limestone County, AL
Henry Zeitler House, High Street, Mooresville, Limestone County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Hundley House, Market Street, Mooresville, Limestone County, AL
Hundley House, Market Street, Mooresville, Limestone County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
High Street (Old Tavern), Mooresville, Limestone County, AL
High Street (Old Tavern), Mooresville, Limestone County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

42 since 1994

Regional 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/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism11
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190909-7
7 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined85 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeFM 97-8
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-4
20 September 2019Debris and open burning28 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-27
19 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeFM 97-9
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burning35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1995Thunderstorm WindMooresville$45,000Several 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 1996Thunderstorm WindMooresville$25,000no account filed
July 2012LightningMooresville$5,000Lightning sparked a brush fire on Riverton Road in Mooresville.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMooresville$5,000Numerous large trees were down just south of Mooresville.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindMooresville$1,000Multiple trees were knocked down on Swancott at Pryor Road.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindMooresville-Signs were blown down along with other debris found in the area.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindMooresville-Trees and power lines were knocked down near I-565 and Mooresville Road.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMooresville-Power lines were knocked down onto a house in the 200 block of Highway 20.
February 2005Flash FloodMooresville-Water covering I-565 in Eastern Limestone County.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindMooresville-Two trees blown down.
April 2002HailMooresville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Limestone 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
Sweetwater1.9 miles22
Belle Mina2.0 miles22
Irvington2.7 miles22
Greenbrier3.5 miles25
Whiteside3.8 miles22
New Hope4.3 miles24
Decatur Junction4.8 miles22
Salem Corner5.0 miles22

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 MooresvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65804The 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.