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Pinebelt, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Orrville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36767. It stands on Rum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tasso quadrangle.

Pinebelt within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Pinebelt between 1994 and 2019, burning about 585 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
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
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190908-4
8 September 1997Smoking12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1997Debris and open burning5.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20120816-001
11 August 2010Debris and open burning3.3 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140801-002
9 July 2012Natural3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20120709-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinebelt in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 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 2000Thunderstorm WindPinebelt$15,000An isolated supercell thunderstorm moved eastward across southern Dallas County producing a macroburst event. Damage extended in a 7 mile long path from northwest of Pinebelt to about 5 miles east of Pinebelt. The area of damage was about 3 miles wide. Damage occurred primarily to trees, though a few homes sustained minor roof damage in the area.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindPinebelt-Several trees uprooted near County Road 73.

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Portland1.2 miles12
Tasso3.4 miles12
Ellis3.8 miles12
Elm Bluff5.8 miles12
Five Points6.2 miles12
Crumptonia6.6 miles9
Whites Bluff6.9 miles13
Tilden7.4 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122565777The 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 156897. 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.