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.
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
- Zeno Chestang House, U.S. Highway 43, Chestang Landing, Chastangfederal building survey, 5 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
297 since 1994Regional 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/incendiarism | 145 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 83 |
| Debris and open burning | 56 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20140907-001 |
| 23 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20150902-002 |
| 2 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20150902-003 |
| 18 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 128 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20150915-002 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1998 | Hail | Chastang | - | Dime size hail was reported just northeast of Chastang. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Movico | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Bucks | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Barry Village | 2.7 miles | 22 | |
| Stage Coach Woods | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Mount Vernon | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Pineola | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Fort Stoddard | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Salco | 4.9 miles | 22 |
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 Q122572613 | The 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.






