McIntosh, Alabama
14 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 Birch Branch. The Survey maps it on the McIntosh quadrangle. 206 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 49 feet above sea level.
On record in McIntosh
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
McIntosh Log Churchlisted 1974
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Andrews Chapel, U.S. Highway 43 (State Highway 13), McIntoshfederal building survey, 1 photograph
Population over time
2 figuresMcIntosh fell from 238 to 206 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 238 | |
| 2020 | 206 | -32 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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 McIntosh quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Mc Intosh quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Photographs
2 photographs, 1936Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Evans, Walker, 1936. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
829 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 829 fires within 5 miles of McIntosh between 1994 and 2020, burning about 17,220 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 390 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 | 390 |
| Debris and open burning | 195 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 181 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 33 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 138 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20150904-001 |
| 4 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 69 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 303 ROBERTS ROAD MCINTOSH, AL |
| 30 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 27 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of McIntosh: 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Bromine, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mcintosh Salt Dome | Bromine | Producer | 1945, 1953 | |
| Was 9 Clay Prospect | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Nichols Works Plant | Salt | Plant | ||
| Olin Mathieson Salt Deposit | Salt | Prospect |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reid Settlement | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Toinette | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Malcolm | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Hawthorn | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| New Wakefield | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Happy Hill | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Topton | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Fairford | 7.0 miles | 15 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on McIntosh | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q65608 | 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 152280. 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.






