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Pine Grove, Alabama

18 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 Dogwood Creek quadrangle.

Pine Grove within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

304 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 304 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,657 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 105 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 burning112
Arson/incendiarism105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use14
Recreation and ceremony14
Natural7
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2

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
24 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140924-001
19 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionBRADY RD & LL OWENS, AL
16 September 2006Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2007Natural25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Douglasville3.3 miles13
Vangordon3.3 miles13
Bay Minette3.8 miles13
D'Olive3.9 miles13
Eastwood4.0 miles13
Holly Hills4.0 miles13
Whitehouse Forks4.3 miles13
Pinchona6.3 miles16

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 Q7195140The 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 124771. 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.