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Pine Flat, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Marbury census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36022. The Survey maps it on the Marbury quadrangle.

Pine Flat within Autauga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

243 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Pine Flat between 1994 and 2020, burning about 970 acres in total. None started naturally. 38 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 burning96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Arson/incendiarism38
Equipment and vehicle use31
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor5

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
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Arson/incendiarism26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Autauga County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Flat in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2009Flash FloodPine Flat$1,000,000More than 40 cars of a train derailed near the Mortar Creek crossing, due to a portion of the tracks being washed out from heavy rain. A portion of CR-64 neaby was also washed out.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPine Flat$500A tree was blown down onto CR-85.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPine Flat-Numerous trees uprooted and blocking County Road 143 between Marbury and Deatsville.
April 2021HailPine Flat-no account filed
February 2009HailPine Flat-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Autauga 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
Rollins1.3 miles15
Wadsworth1.8 miles15
Wilder Hill (historical)3.7 miles15
Marbury3.9 miles15
Stoney Point4.4 miles17
Pyron4.7 miles15
Pine Level5.2 miles17
New Prospect5.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156891. 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.