Mount Moriah, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Forest Home census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36030. The Survey maps it on the Pine Apple North quadrangle.

Mount Moriah within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Pine Apple North quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Mount Moriah between 1995 and 2020, burning about 465 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 burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
26 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20150926-001
19 September 2017	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170919-2
3 June 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200506-41
14 May 2013	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20130514-003
1 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20120501-002
7 April 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	MONTREY RD, AL
9 March 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mount Moriah: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Butler 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
Monterey	1.4 miles	7
Ridgeville	3.2 miles	8
Forest Home	4.9 miles	7
Saucer	7.4 miles	7
Butler Springs	8.2 miles	7
Manningham	8.4 miles	8
Shacklesville	10.6 miles	7
Liberty	12.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 135775. 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.