Cohassett, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Shreve census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36474. The Survey maps it on the Brooks quadrangle.

Cohassett within Conecuh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Brooks quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

64 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Cohassett between 1994 and 2019, burning about 954 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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	16
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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
30 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-29
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160915-7
15 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conecuh County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Cohassett: 6 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed Deposit	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Conecuh 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
Melrose	3.9 miles	8
Mount Union	4.1 miles	7
Spring Hill	5.5 miles	7
Paul	5.8 miles	8
Travis Bridge	6.5 miles	7
Shreve	7.9 miles	8
Old Town	8.4 miles	7
Flat Rock	9.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156199. 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.