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Chastang, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mount Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36560. It stands on Conrad Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle.

Chastang within Mobile County

On record in Chastang

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

297 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Chastang between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,887 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 145 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
Arson/incendiarism145
Missing data/not specified/undetermined83
Debris and open burning56
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140907-001
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarism35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150902-002
2 September 2015Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150902-003
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2015Arson/incendiarism128 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150915-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chastang in 1 storm report in 1998: 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 1998HailChastang-Dime size hail was reported just northeast of Chastang.

Every storm recorded in Mobile 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
Movico1.9 miles16
Bucks1.9 miles16
Barry Village2.7 miles22
Stage Coach Woods3.3 miles16
Mount Vernon3.3 miles16
Pineola4.9 miles16
Fort Stoddard4.9 miles13
Salco4.9 miles22

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.

Wikidata item Q122572613The 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 115977. 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.

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.