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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.

Pine Ridge within DeKalb County

Population over time

2 figures

Pine 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.

YearPeople Change
2010282
2020263-19 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

80 since 1997

Regional 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-14
3 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160903-1
28 September 2016Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-26
25 September 2016Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-6
16 September 1998Smoking4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160914-11
13 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ladd MineClay, Fullers EarthPast Producer
Browder MineKaolinPast Producer
Fort Payne QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
New Ladd MineKaolinPast Producer
Pearsall QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dekalb CountyIronUnknown
Fort Payne AreaIronPast ProducerHematite
Fort Payne Area-BIronPast ProducerHematite
Fort Payne MineIronPast Producer
Fort Payne MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in DeKalb 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
Hughes Mill1.4 miles21
Bootsville (historical)1.6 miles21
Luna (historical)2.3 miles21
Pleasant Hill2.6 miles21
Chavies2.8 miles21
Douglas3.1 miles23
Fort Payne3.4 miles23
Lydia3.5 miles21

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 RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67640The 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.