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Moscow, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Demopolis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36732. The Survey maps it on the Jefferson quadrangle. It stands 89 feet above sea level.

Moscow within Marengo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Moscow between 1994 and 2017, burning about 221 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning11
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
27 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2012Natural13 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20120707-001
2 July 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionU S HWY 80, AL
24 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150524-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo 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
Paces (historical)3.3 miles11
Salt Well3.7 miles11
Robinson (historical)4.9 miles8
Jefferson6.3 miles11
Griffins (historical)7.6 miles9
McNeils (historical)8.2 miles9
Pin Hook8.6 miles12
Shortleaf9.0 miles12

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 Q6915431The 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 152385. 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.