McShan, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Ethelsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35461. The Survey maps it on the Ethelsville quadrangle. It stands 285 feet above sea level.

McShan within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1953 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Ethelsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

66 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of McShan between 1994 and 2020, burning about 788 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 15 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	21
Arson/incendiarism	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	28 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20130908-001
5 September 2000	Natural	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160921-1
21 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170919-3
18 September 2000	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 30 E, AL
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens 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
Melrose	1.5 miles	12
Beards Mill	1.6 miles	12
Delma	2.3 miles	12
Coal Fire	3.4 miles	12
Ethelsville	4.6 miles	12
Macedonia	4.9 miles	12
Pine Grove	5.3 miles	11
Owens	6.6 miles	12

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 McShan	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6802686	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 122601. 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.