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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.

McIntosh within Washington County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

McIntosh 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.

YearPeople Change
2010238
2020206-32 (-13%)

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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 1936

Taken 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.

Gus Rivers, a Cajun living near the McIntosh community in Washington County, Alabama
Gus Rivers, a Cajun living near the McIntosh community in Washington County, Alabama
Evans, Walker, 1936. Library of Congress
Andrews Chapel, U.S. Highway 43 (State Highway 13), McIntosh, Washington County, AL
Andrews Chapel, U.S. Highway 43 (State Highway 13), McIntosh, Washington County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

829 since 1994

Regional 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/incendiarism390
Debris and open burning195
Missing data/not specified/undetermined181
Recreation and ceremony33
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
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
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2015Arson/incendiarism138 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150904-001
4 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined69 acresAlabama Forestry Commission303 ROBERTS ROAD MCINTOSH, AL
30 September 2008Debris and open burning17 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burning27 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mcintosh Salt DomeBromineProducer1945, 1953
Was 9 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Nichols Works PlantSaltPlant
Olin Mathieson Salt DepositSaltProspect

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Reid Settlement3.8 miles15
Toinette5.2 miles14
Malcolm5.3 miles15
Hawthorn5.5 miles14
New Wakefield5.6 miles14
Happy Hill5.9 miles15
Topton6.4 miles14
Fairford7.0 miles15

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 McIntoshAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65608The 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.