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Pine Level, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Elba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36009. The Survey maps it on the Danleys Crossroads quadrangle. It stands 472 feet above sea level.

Pine Level within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

65 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Pine Level between 1994 and 2020, burning about 660 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning25
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
8 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2006Arson/incendiarism9.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use33 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionLOWER BOZEMAN RD, AL
3 June 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160603-1
28 June 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Pine Level: 12 unknowns, 10 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bowers and Burkette PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

6 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Level in 6 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind. 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
February 2016Thunderstorm WindPine Level$20,000Trees were blown down near the Coffee County Lake with a car damaged from the falling trees. Damage cost was estimated.
December 2024Thunderstorm WindPine Level-Trees were blown down at County Road 364 and 355 and elsewhere across the county.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPine Level-A tree was blown down onto County Road 353.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindPine Level-A tree was blown down on County Road 355.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindPine Level-A pine tree was blown down across County Road 364.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindPine Level-A tree was blown down on County Road 348.

Every storm recorded in Coffee 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
Saddle Hill3.3 miles8
Danleys Crossroads4.0 miles8
Curtis5.6 miles8
Zoar5.7 miles8
Lee6.0 miles8
Newby6.2 miles7
Elba7.6 miles8
Shady Grove8.6 miles8

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.

Wikipedia article on Pine LevelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195256The 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 124825. 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.

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.