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Pin Hook, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Demopolis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36732. It lies near Grant Hill. The Survey maps it on the Linden quadrangle. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Pin Hook within Marengo 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.

Fires near this place

35 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Pin Hook between 1995 and 2018, burning about 217 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
21 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140919-002
16 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 June 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 June 2016Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160627-13
27 June 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150504-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo 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
Jefferson2.5 miles11
McNeils (historical)4.4 miles9
Griffins (historical)4.8 miles9
Blue Lock (historical)4.9 miles9
Providence5.0 miles12
Linden5.3 miles12
Beckleys (historical)6.0 miles9
Hill Top6.9 miles9

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 Pin HookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7194746The 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 124753. 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.