Chestang, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the McIntosh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36553. It stands on South Frasier Branch. The Survey maps it on the Calvert quadrangle.

Chestang within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

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 Calvert quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

892 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 892 fires within 5 miles of Chestang between 1994 and 2020, burning about 18,724 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 458 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	458
Debris and open burning	217
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	182
Recreation and ceremony	17
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	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 2010	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150906-003
5 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	138 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150904-001
30 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Fairford	2.7 miles	15
Happy Hill	3.6 miles	15
Sims Chapel	4.4 miles	15
Reid Settlement	5.9 miles	15
Malcolm	6.0 miles	15
Dwight	7.7 miles	15
McIntosh	8.4 miles	14
Topton	8.8 miles	14

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 Q122560131

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 156174. 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.