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Moorefield, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Moorefield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72501. It stands on Moorefield Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Rock quadrangle. 126 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 312 feet above sea level.

Moorefield within Independence County

On record in Moorefield

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Moorefield fell from 160 to 126 between 2000 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
2000160
2010137-23 (-14%)
2020126-11 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

37 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Moorefield between 1998 and 2018, burning about 251 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 June 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 April 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 April 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Independence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Moorefield: 12 producers, 12 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
BatesvillePlatinum, Limestone, DimensionOccurrenceUnknown
Stone Products CorpMarble, DimensionUnknown
Texas Lime Co PlantLimestone, DimensionProducer
Texas Line Co PitLimestone, DimensionProducer
Arkansas Lime CoStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Batesville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sheid QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknownLimestone
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Independence County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moorefield in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
April 2009Flash FloodMoorefield$75,000Street flooding was reported in Batesville. Water was up to the door handles on cars.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMoorefield$15,000Trees were uprooted in the area.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindMoorefield-Some trees were blown down and some homes were damaged.
June 2007Flash FloodMoorefield-Arkansas Highway 233 was closed between Arkansas Highways 25 and 69. Arkansas Highway 69 also experienced flooding east of Batesville. Six people were rescued from vehicles in high water.
April 1996HailMoorefield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Independence 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
Balch Addition1.2 miles20
Quail Valley1.3 miles20
Wolford Addition2.4 miles20
Rogers Addition2.6 miles20
Eastwood Addition2.7 miles20
College Heights Addition2.8 miles20
Gainsboro2.8 miles20
Bryant Woodland Heights2.9 miles20

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 MoorefieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2363138The 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 52170. 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.