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Movico, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mount Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36560. It stands on North Fork Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. 291 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 52 feet above sea level.

Movico within Mobile County

Population over time

2 figures

Movico fell from 305 to 291 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
2010305
2020291-14 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

461 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 461 fires within 5 miles of Movico between 1994 and 2020, burning about 10,085 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 254 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
Arson/incendiarism254
Missing data/not specified/undetermined105
Debris and open burning90
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 1995Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1994Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarism35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile 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
Mount Vernon1.6 miles16
Chastang1.9 miles16
Fort Stoddard3.5 miles13
Bucks3.7 miles16
Stage Coach Woods4.3 miles16
Barry Village4.5 miles22
Pineola4.6 miles16
Calvert6.3 miles15

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 MovicoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1265082The 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 123539. 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.