Pineola, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Citronelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36521. It stands on Bull Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle.

Pineola within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

1943 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

707 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 707 fires within 5 miles of Pineola between 1994 and 2020, burning about 14,912 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 396 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
Arson/incendiarism	396
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	162
Debris and open burning	139
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190909-5
9 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150906-003
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile 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
Lambert Grove	2.6 miles	16
Stage Coach Woods	3.2 miles	16
Scoutshire Woods	3.8 miles	16
Movico	4.6 miles	16
Lambert	4.8 miles	16
Chastang	4.9 miles	16
Turnerville	5.5 miles	21
Mount Vernon	5.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 124857. 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.