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Mount Moriah, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Lineville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36258. The Survey maps it on the Delta quadrangle.

Mount Moriah within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

85 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Mount Moriah between 1994 and 2020, burning about 673 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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 burning43
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-18
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190913-12
12 September 1999Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Mount Moriah: 19 prospects, 15 past producers, 8 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Manganese, Talc-Soapstone, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ironaton Brown Ore MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1944
Unnamed ProspectGraphiteUnknown
Van Smith Soapstone ProspectTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceTalc
G.C. Miller ProspectManganeseOccurrence1944
J Van Smith ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Thos. Peoples ProspectManganeseOccurrence1944
Unnamed ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Van Smith Manganese ProspectManganeseOccurrencePyrolusite
Alexandria MineMicaPast Producer
Bagley ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Delta2.0 miles14
Needmore3.8 miles14
Haynes Crossroad3.9 miles14
Barfield5.1 miles12
Union6.1 miles14
Elder (historical)6.5 miles14
Watts Crossroads6.9 miles12
Concord8.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1730168. 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.