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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1942 USGS Dyas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Dyas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Dogwood Creek quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1981 USGS Bay Minette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Dogwood Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 2003 USGS Dyas quadrangle1:50000
Fires near this place
304 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 112 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 105 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20140924-001 |
| 19 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | BRADY RD & LL OWENS, AL |
| 16 September 2006 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 2007 | Natural | 25 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douglasville | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Vangordon | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Bay Minette | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| D'Olive | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Eastwood | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Holly Hills | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Whitehouse Forks | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Pinchona | 6.3 miles | 16 |
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 Q7195140 | The 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.








