BlockMehaffey, Alabama
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Millry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36558. It stands on Whiskey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Copeland quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Copeland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Waynesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
105 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Mehaffey between 1993 and 2016, burning about 1,092 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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 | 35 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Mississippi Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 33 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shady Grove | 1.0 miles | 12 | |
| Healing Springs | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Copeland | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Millry | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Dunbar | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Barlow | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Chapel Hill | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Fitee | 5.7 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.
| Wikidata item Q122565044 | 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 152296. 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.