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Chesson, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Shorter-Hardaway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36029. The Survey maps it on the Chesson quadrangle.

Chesson within Macon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

92 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Chesson between 1994 and 2018, burning about 2,433 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140903-001
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120912-001
26 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120826-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon 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 Chesson: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Bul 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Macon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chesson in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 tornado. 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 2009Tornado (EF0)Chesson$3,000The long tracked tornado that tracked across a large section of Montgomery County made its first of three county line crossings, into Macon County. In this portion of Macon County, the tornado track was just over a mile long, and through a largely rural area.

Every storm recorded in Macon 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
Cross Keys3.2 miles9
Hardaway4.0 miles9
Calebee6.7 miles9
La Place6.7 miles9
Shorter7.0 miles9
Downs7.7 miles9
Tysonville8.3 miles9
Liverpool9.2 miles9

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 Q122550521The 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 116013. 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.