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Mosses, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mosses census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36040. It stands on Kellys Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Gordonsville quadrangle. 834 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 207 feet above sea level.

Mosses within Lowndes County

Population over time

2 figures

Mosses fell from 1,029 to 834 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
20101,029
2020834-195 (-19%)

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.

Fires near this place

87 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Mosses between 1994 and 2020, burning about 484 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
5 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2004Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1998Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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
Gordonville2.8 miles9
Gordonsville3.3 miles9
Beechwood3.5 miles9
Hayneville4.9 miles9
Hicks Hill6.0 miles9
Lum7.6 miles9
Lowndesboro7.6 miles13
Trickem7.9 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 MossesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67472The 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 136404. 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.