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Pine Mountain, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Locust Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35133. The Survey maps it on the Remlap quadrangle.

Pine Mountain within Blount County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

93 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Pine Mountain between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,276 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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 burning46
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1995Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190917-10
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-14
13 September 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blount County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Pine Mountain: 9 occurrences, 4 prospects, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Blount Mountain AreaIronUnknown
Compton Area MineIronPast ProducerHematite
Compton Iron MineIronPast Producer
E J Cozby ProspectIronOccurrence
Hullett ProspectIronProspect
Reuben Little ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Blount 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
Watseka (historical)1.5 miles24
Remlap1.8 miles24
Inland Junction2.8 miles24
Compton3.2 miles23
Clear Springs3.8 miles24
Brentwood3.9 miles23
Woodhaven4.1 miles23
Gurley4.3 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 135147. 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.