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Moore, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Wilmington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46721. The Survey maps it on the Butler West quadrangle. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Moore within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

In the county-history sources

2,634 words on this township

History of Dekalb County, Indiana, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Old Families, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Wilmington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Wilmington Township - 2,634 words.

Fires near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Moore between 2002 and 2004, burning about 57 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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 July 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 April 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 March 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 November 2004Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 November 2004Debris and open burning20 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 November 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 October 2002Recreation and ceremony35 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Moore: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bailey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moore in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 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
March 2022Thunderstorm WindMoore-The public reported several three inch diameter tree branches were broken.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Waterloo4.3 miles11
Butler4.9 miles11
Concord4.9 miles10
Auburn6.0 miles11
Taylor Corner6.1 miles10
Saint Joe6.3 miles10
Stafford Center6.4 miles11
Orangeville6.6 miles11

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 MooreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6908109The 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 439389. 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.