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Pinchona, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Bay Minette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36507. The Survey maps it on the Dyas quadrangle.

Pinchona within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

248 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Pinchona between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,515 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 84 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/incendiarism84
Debris and open burning71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use21
Recreation and ceremony13
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Smoking5
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
6 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-16
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20170926-2
21 September 2018Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180921-2
2 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140902-003
17 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pinchona: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Bal 6 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Pinchona Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Baldwin 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
Carney0.4 miles16
Eastwood2.7 miles13
Dyas3.7 miles16
Bay Minette3.8 miles13
Phillipsville5.1 miles16
Douglasville5.1 miles13
D'Olive5.3 miles13
Pine Grove6.3 miles18

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 Q122567171The 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 156887. 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.