Mooresville

Built in 1818. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Mooresville is a town in Limestone County, Alabama, United States, located southeast of the intersection of Interstate 565 and Interstate 65, and north of Wheeler Lake.”
Wikipedia article Mooresville, Alabama, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Limestone County · listed in 1972 · category: District · built in 1818.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Off U.S. 72 (AL 20), Mooresville, 35649
When was it listed? April 1972
Category. district
Census division. Mooresville
When was it built? 1818
National Register reference number. 72000165 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

48 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Mooresville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 403 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	12
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190909-7
7 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	85 acres	Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge	FM 97-8
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-4
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2019	Debris and open burning	28 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190920-27
19 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge	FM 97-9
16 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Storms near this property

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mooresville, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	$45,000	Several trees were reported down on Power Road in Belle Mina. A power pole was broken by the wind in Greenbrier. Two airplanes were flipped over by the wind at the Mooresville Airport east of the city.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	$25,000	no account filed
July 2012	Lightning	Mooresville	$5,000	Lightning sparked a brush fire on Riverton Road in Mooresville.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	$5,000	Numerous large trees were down just south of Mooresville.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	$1,000	Multiple trees were knocked down on Swancott at Pryor Road.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	Signs were blown down along with other debris found in the area.
March 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	Trees and power lines were knocked down near I-565 and Mooresville Road.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	Power lines were knocked down onto a house in the 200 block of Highway 20.
February 2005	Flash Flood	Mooresville	-	Water covering I-565 in Eastern Limestone County.
March 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooresville	-	Two trees blown down.
April 2002	Hail	Mooresville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Limestone County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

3 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Belle Mina	1.5 miles	1972
Woodside	2.0 miles	1982
Cotton Hill	7.6 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000165 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Limestone County	All 15 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.
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.