Pineville, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Beatrice census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36425. It stands on Roberts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beatrice quadrangle.

Pineville within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Beatrice quadrangle1:24000
1971 USGS Beatrice quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

69 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Pineville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 483 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2016	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160909-17
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	247 4TH STREET, AL
11 August 2015	Natural	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150811-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pineville: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Mon 1 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Monroe 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
Beatrice	1.6 miles	9
Turkestan (historical)	2.6 miles	7
Riley	2.9 miles	9
Turnbull	3.1 miles	9
Kalem	3.3 miles	9
Natchez	4.5 miles	7
Nadawah	5.0 miles	7
Buena Vista	5.1 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156898. 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.