Moss, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sweet Water census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36782. The Survey maps it on the Miller quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Moss within Marengo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Miller quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

97 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Moss (historical) between 1994 and 2019, burning about 716 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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	37
Debris and open burning	35
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	2
Smoking	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
28 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190918-13
17 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190916-9
14 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wayne	1.7 miles	10
Miller	2.6 miles	9
Doyle	3.2 miles	10
Sweet Water	3.4 miles	10
Vangale	3.9 miles	10
Shiloh	4.3 miles	9
Aimwell	4.8 miles	10
Marengo	4.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1730260. 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.