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Moscow, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Sulligent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35586. The Survey maps it on the Vernon quadrangle. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

Moscow within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

90 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Moscow between 1994 and 2020, burning about 558 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 23 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 burning24
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
4 September 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2006Arson/incendiarism19 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-6
16 September 1999Debris and open burning18 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use22 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160910-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moscow in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 2009Thunderstorm WindMoscow$2,000Several trees were blown down on Moscow Road, near Sulligent.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMoscow$1,000Several trees were blown down on Mulberry Road, southeast of the city of Vernon.
March 2021HailMoscow-Dime to quarter size hail along Highway 17 near the intersection of Military Grove Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMoscow-Several trees uprooted near Hankins Bottom Road.

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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
Sulligent2.8 miles12
Crews3.2 miles12
Pine Springs5.7 miles12
Beaverton6.1 miles12
Mansfield6.9 miles11
Bedford7.5 miles12
Vernon7.8 miles12
Blooming Grove8.4 miles11

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 MoscowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q106515003The 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 123100. 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.