Moreland, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Addison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35572. The Survey maps it on the Houston quadrangle.

Moreland within Winston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Houston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
2000 USGS Houston quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Moreland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,971 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 139 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
Arson/incendiarism	139
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Debris and open burning	13
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	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
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MORELAND-E
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2019	Natural	250 acres	National Forests in Alabama	COLLINS CAMP
17 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150917-002
17 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	TOWER #2
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	TOWER 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moreland in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2009: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1997	Hail	Moreland	$6,000	Three-quarter inch hail was reported in Moreland, in northern Winston county.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Moreland	$2,000	Several trees were blown down west of the Moreland Community.

Every storm recorded in Winston 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ellaville	1.5 miles	17
Grayson	2.9 miles	17
Haricon (historical)	4.6 miles	11
Barnett Chapel	5.5 miles	11
Rock Creek	5.7 miles	11
Gray (historical)	5.8 miles	11
Robinson Bottoms (historical)	5.8 miles	11
Inmanfield	6.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 160133. 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.