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Piney Grove, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Samson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36477. The Survey maps it on the Sellersville quadrangle.

Piney Grove within Geneva County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Piney Grove between 1994 and 2020, burning about 361 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
9 September 2019Natural10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190909-10
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190908-9
19 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140919-001
16 September 1999Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2019Debris and open burning7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190913-6
31 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2010Debris and open burning3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2015Natural12 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150729-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Geneva County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Piney Grove: 9 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gen 5 Clay ProspectClayProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Geneva County

Storms near this place

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Piney Grove in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindPiney Grove$1,000A large tree fell onto a carport and damaged it.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindPiney Grove-Trees were blown down along Highway 87 north of Samson.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindPiney Grove-Trees were blown down onto Holley Mill Road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindPiney Grove-Downed trees blocked the intersection of two county roads just east of Piney Grove.
March 2025HailPiney Grove-no account filed
March 2011HailPiney Grove-no account filed
March 2011HailPiney Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Geneva 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
Mount Carmel2.6 miles8
Pera3.2 miles8
Sellersville3.6 miles8
Weeks3.7 miles8
Spears3.8 miles12
Samson3.9 miles8
Lowery4.9 miles8
Earlytown5.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156900. 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.

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.