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Mossy Grove Village, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Henderson-Spring Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36079. The Survey maps it on the Brundidge NW quadrangle.

Mossy Grove Village within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

67 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Mossy Grove Village between 1994 and 2020, burning about 470 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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 burning27
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
Smoking1

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
20 September 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-12
29 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 June 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 June 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 93 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 93 workings within 5 miles of Mossy Grove Village: 41 unknowns, 33 past producers, 13 occurrences, 6 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pik 7 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Pik 8 Clay ProspectClayProspect
J A Curtis ProspectIronProspect
J Bryce Smith ProspectIronProspect
Milton McKeller ProspectIronProspect
O L Bryan ProspectIronProspect
Pike County Brown Iron Ore DepositsIronPast Producer1940
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Mossy Grove Estates0.6 miles11
Mossy Grove1.5 miles8
Country Club Estates2.8 miles8
Spring Hill2.9 miles11
Town and Country Estates3.5 miles8
Meadow Grove3.6 miles8
Dozier Estates3.6 miles8
Hephzibah3.7 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122596337The 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 163239. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.