Bashi, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Millry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36558. It stands on Cedar Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bladon Springs quadrangle.

Bashi within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Bladon Springs quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Waynesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Bashi between 1994 and 2020, burning about 831 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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 burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160925-22
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160925-23
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	74 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bashi: 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Bromine. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cullom Springs Well	Bromine	Occurrence	1884
	Was 2 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Washington 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Koenton	1.9 miles	11
Silver Cross	3.5 miles	11
Millry	4.5 miles	11
Frankville	4.7 miles	11
Bigbee	4.8 miles	12
Healing Springs	5.7 miles	11
Dunbar	6.0 miles	11
Loper	6.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 113542. 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.