Mahan, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rainsville-Sylvania census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35988. It lies near Frog Valley (historical). The Survey maps it on the Sylvania quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mahan within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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.

1886 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

101 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Mahan (historical) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 630 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
Debris and open burning	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Arson/incendiarism	19
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1998	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160907-4
6 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160906-16
29 September 2014	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20140929-001
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160928-40
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160925-5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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
Sylvania	0.8 miles	22
Mahan Crossroads	2.0 miles	22
Brooks Crossroads	2.2 miles	22
Elliott Crossroads	3.6 miles	22
Musgrove (historical)	4.2 miles	22
High Point	4.5 miles	22
Stamp	4.7 miles	22
Powells Crossroads	4.9 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 150714. 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.