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Pine Apple, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pine Apple census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36768. The Survey maps it on the Pine Apple South quadrangle. 143 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 303 feet above sea level.

Pine Apple within Wilcox County

On record in Pine Apple

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Pine Apple grew from 132 to 143 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010132
2020143+11 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Colonel Joseph R. Hawthorne House, Broad Street (County Road 59), Pine Apple, Wilcox County, AL
Colonel Joseph R. Hawthorne House, Broad Street (County Road 59), Pine Apple, Wilcox County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Pine Apple between 1994 and 2020, burning about 547 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200908-2
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-19
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1080 CO. RD. 155, AL
29 September 2006Arson/incendiarism18 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burning7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Arson/incendiarism111 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2000Debris and open burning45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Apple in 2 storm reports in 1999: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1999Thunderstorm WindPine Apple$4,000High winds blew several trees down.
June 1999HailPine Apple-Dime size hail was reported by the public.

Every storm recorded in Wilcox 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
Rutthven2.4 miles7
Schuster3.0 miles7
Awin3.3 miles7
Allenton Station4.3 miles7
Caledonia5.3 miles7
Allenton5.5 miles7
Oak Hill5.9 miles7
McWilliams6.2 miles7

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 Pine AppleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65571The 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 152909. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.