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Pine Grove Village, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Columbiana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35143. It stands on Kates Branch. The Survey maps it on the Shelby quadrangle.

Pine Grove Village within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

184 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove Village between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,892 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 66 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 burning68
Arson/incendiarism66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural7
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning48 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use55 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2019Smoking15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190902-1
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pine Grove Village: 5 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Marble, Dimension, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
A and B MineBarium-BariteProducer
Eureka White Marble Co. QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Chain Gang PitIronUnknown
Kingdom AreaIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Shelby 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
Merrell Beach1.2 miles17
Spring Creek1.2 miles17
Dogwood Point1.3 miles17
Mostellers2.2 miles17
Kewahatchie3.4 miles17
Wildwood Shores3.5 miles17
Shelby4.3 miles17
Shelby Shores4.6 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1805592. 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.