Pinedale Acres, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Killen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35645. It stands on Tanyard Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wheeler Dam quadrangle.

Pinedale Acres within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1914 USGS Rogersville quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Rogersville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Wheeler Dam quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Wheeler Dam quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Wheeler Dam quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

103 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Pinedale Acres between 1994 and 2016, burning about 485 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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	47
Arson/incendiarism	27
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	3
Natural	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
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2007	Natural	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lauderdale 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Center Star	0.8 miles	17
Big Oak	1.3 miles	17
Beach Grove (historical)	1.8 miles	17
Antioch	1.9 miles	17
Mitchelltown	2.4 miles	17
Aqua Vista	2.6 miles	17
Brooks Acres	2.8 miles	18
East Killen	3.0 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 124853. 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.