McCosh Mill, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Five Points census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36855. It stands on Cuss Creek. The Survey maps it on the Abbottsford quadrangle.

McCosh Mill within Chambers County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1899 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Abbottsford quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of McCosh Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 780 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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	46
Arson/incendiarism	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2

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
28 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190927-20
24 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190924-26
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200809-4
9 August 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers 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
Standing Rock	2.1 miles	11
Finley	4.2 miles	11
Cumbee Mill	5.0 miles	11
Welch	5.7 miles	11
Stroud	6.2 miles	11
Oakland	6.5 miles	14
Doublehead	8.4 miles	11
Fredonia	8.6 miles	13

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 Q122543376

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 156680. 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.