The municipality lies in the Vulkaneifel, a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth.

Such things were found many years ago by Franz Krämer from Kölnische Höfe (a hamlet now belonging to Kaperich) near Uersfeld's railway station.

The mountains Höchst, Hochkelberg and others in the High Eifel arose about 35,000,000 years ago as a result of Tertiary vulcanism.

Many barrow fields can be found in the Uersfeld church woods within the limits of the outlying centre of Höchstberg.

Court Counsellor Comes bequeathed part of his collection to the Society for Beneficial Research (Gesellschaft für nützliche Forschungen) in Trier.

In the document containing the first documentary mention, Justina, the knight Siegfried's noble wife, bequeathed three estates at Uersfeld, Wollmerath and Princka, which she had inherited from her rich father Alberto, to Springiersbach Abbey, receiving in consideration thereof eight Fuder of wine each year (a Fuder was somewhere between 800 and 1 000 L).

[4] The German blazon reads: Schild geteilt, oben gespalten; oben vorne in Grün eine silberne Windmühle, hinten in Silber ein schwarzes Balkenkreuz, belegt mit zwei schräggekreuzten Glevestäben, wobei die Stäbe gold, die Lilien rot sind; unten in Rot ein schräglinker, silberner Bischofsstab, belegt mit einem liegenden rückwärtssehenden silbernen Wolf.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess, in chief per pale vert a windmill argent and argent a cross sable surmounted by two glaives per saltire staves Or and heads flory gules, in base gules a bishop's staff bendwise sinister surmounted by a wolf couchant reguardant of the second.

The glaives come from a seal used by Johann von Husener from Uersfeld, who lived in the municipality in the 14th and 15th centuries as an Imperial notary.