Pine Ridge, Alabama
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Payne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35968. It lies near Shinbone Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Chavies quadrangle. 263 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 955 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPine Ridge fell from 282 to 263 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 282 | |
| 2020 | 263 | -19 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 21 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.
- 1893 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:125000
- 1898 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1936 USGS Chavies quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Chavies quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Chavies quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Rome quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
80 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Pine Ridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 498 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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 | 37 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190906-14 |
| 3 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160903-1 |
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160928-26 |
| 25 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160925-6 |
| 16 September 1998 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160914-11 |
| 13 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Pine Ridge: 8 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Kaolin, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fullers Earth. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ladd Mine | Clay, Fullers Earth | Past Producer | ||
| Browder Mine | Kaolin | Past Producer | ||
| Fort Payne Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| New Ladd Mine | Kaolin | Past Producer | ||
| Pearsall Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dekalb County | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Fort Payne Area | Iron | Past Producer | Hematite | |
| Fort Payne Area-B | Iron | Past Producer | Hematite | |
| Fort Payne Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Fort Payne Mine | Iron | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hughes Mill | 1.4 miles | 21 | |
| Bootsville (historical) | 1.6 miles | 21 | |
| Luna (historical) | 2.3 miles | 21 | |
| Pleasant Hill | 2.6 miles | 21 | |
| Chavies | 2.8 miles | 21 | |
| Douglas | 3.1 miles | 23 | |
| Fort Payne | 3.4 miles | 23 | |
| Lydia | 3.5 miles | 21 |
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 Ridge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q67640 | 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 158292. 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.










