Pigeye, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Hackleburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35571. The Survey maps it on the Hodges quadrangle. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Pigeye within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1936 USGS Hodges quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Hodges quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
1998 USGS Hodges quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

162 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Pigeye between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,694 acres in total. None started naturally. 77 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	77
Debris and open burning	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2005	Debris and open burning	27 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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
Wiginton	2.7 miles	12
Hackleburg	5.3 miles	14
Tessner	7.7 miles	14
Fairview	7.8 miles	14
Pleasant Ridge	9.4 miles	10
Lumbull	10.7 miles	14
Allens Factory	10.8 miles	14
Brinn	11.1 miles	11

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 Pigeye	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18388538	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 156884. 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.