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Pine Level, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pine Level census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36069. The Survey maps it on the Pine Level quadrangle. It stands 489 feet above sea level.

Pine Level within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

44 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Pine Level between 1994 and 2019, burning about 392 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2014Natural1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140903-002
29 September 2016Debris and open burning32 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-29
21 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-6
15 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Level in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 hail, 2 tornado, 2 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
April 2009Tornado (EF1)Pine Level$30,000The tornado touched down briefly near the intersection of US-231 and Old Barnes Road, a few miles north of the Pine Level community. Three horse trailers, including one that weighed over 10,000 pounds, were tossed over 50 feet.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPine Level$3,000A tree was blown down onto power lines on US-231. Additional trees and limbs were blown down on Pine Level Loop Road.
May 1998HailPine Level$2,000Hail the size of quarters was reported in the town of Pine Level.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPine Level-Numerous trees uprooted across southern Montgomery County.
March 2021Tornado (EF0)Pine Level-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in eastern Montgomery County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 80 mph. The short-lived tornado touched down on the east side of Highway 231 just north of County Road 72. The tornado produced damage on a farmstead, uprooting trees in the front yard, destroying a playhouse and trampoline. A tree fell on the house, damaging the roof. Additional structural damage was also noted to the roof mainly in form of shingle loss. The tornado continued northeast across the property uprooting mainly softwood trees with some sporadic snapping of trees along its path. The tornado lifted near the back pastureland.
April 1998HailPine Level-Nickel-sized hail was reported in the Pine Level area.
March 2013HailPine Level-no account filed
July 2008HailPine Level-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Currys3.6 miles10
Meadville4.5 miles10
Gibson5.4 miles10
Center Point5.6 miles8
Pisgah5.8 miles8
Dublin5.8 miles10
Downing5.8 miles10
Teasleys Mill6.6 miles10

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 Q7195258The 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 152926. 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.