Pine Dale, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35739. It stands on Davis Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ardmore quadrangle.

Pine Dale within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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.

1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

79 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Pine Dale between 1994 and 2020, burning about 710 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Arson/incendiarism	11
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
27 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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 Pine Dale: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Ardmore Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Limestone
	Ardmore Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Limestone 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
Cedar Hill	1.1 miles	22
Caro (historical)	1.8 miles	22
Bethel	2.1 miles	22
Ardmore	2.3 miles	22
Estaville (historical)	2.9 miles	20
Sand Spring (historical)	3.1 miles	22
Holland Gin	3.2 miles	20
Oak Grove	3.4 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 152912. 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.