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Mahlep, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Alexandria-Webster Chapel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36250. The Survey maps it on the Eulaton quadrangle.

Mahlep within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

151 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Mahlep between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,657 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 32 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 burning52
Arson/incendiarism32
Equipment and vehicle use24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony11
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
7 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190925-13
25 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use800 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-18
22 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160922-14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Mahlep: 20 unknowns, 7 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum. 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
Ohatchee QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Peaceburg Alumina ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectZinc, LeadPast Producer1863
Wellington ProspectLead, Zinc, Limestone, GeneralOccurrence
Donoho MineClayProducer
Unnamed MineClayPast Producer
Brook MountainIronUnknown
Edmundson BanksIronPast ProducerResidual
Gladden PropertyIronPast ProducerResidual
Leatherwood BanksIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mahlep in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindMahlep-Trees were down, blocking Halls Chapel Rd.
May 2013FloodMahlep-After heavy rainfall overnight, six to ten inches of standing water surrounded Leatherwood Baptist Church in Saks.
May 2011HailMahlep-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Bush1.0 miles19
Melrose1.1 miles18
Peaceburg1.6 miles19
Halls Chapel1.8 miles17
Leatherwood1.9 miles19
Alexandria2.0 miles18
Blue Springs2.9 miles17
Tallaseehatchee (historical)3.0 miles18

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 Q122572528The 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 156647. 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.