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New Moon, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cedar Bluff-Gaylesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35973. The Survey maps it on the Jamestown quadrangle.

New Moon within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

463 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 463 fires within 5 miles of New Moon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,573 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 309 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/incendiarism309
Debris and open burning82
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2016Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-15
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2007Debris and open burning90 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of New Moon: 8 occurrences, 4 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown, Mills Creek AreaIronPast ProducerHematite
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Moon in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Moon$5,000A large tree fell partially on a home along County Road 217. A couple other trees fell on Highway 35 at Blanche and on Longshore Drive in Leesburg.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Moon$2,000Several trees were blown down in the New Moon Community.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Moon-Multiple trees were downed across northern Cherokee County, with multiple callouts to Broomtown VFD to help clear trees from roadways.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Moon-Several trees uprooted along County Road 99.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Grover1.4 miles18
Starkville (historical)1.5 miles17
Broomtown2.2 miles20
Rhinehart2.4 miles20
Berry Springs2.6 miles18
Burgess3.0 miles18
Jamestown3.1 miles18
Chesterfield3.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156786. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.