Piney Grove, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Speake-Oakville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35619. The Survey maps it on the Massey quadrangle.

Piney Grove within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1935 USGS Danville quadrangle1:48000
1935 USGS Danville quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Mc Kendry quadrangle1:24000
1938 USGS Danville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Massey quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
2000 USGS Massey quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

73 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Piney Grove between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,619 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 43 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	43
Debris and open burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	3
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MORELAND-A
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MORELAND-B
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MORELAND-F
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MORELAND-C
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MORELAND-D
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	MILL CREEK 2
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	MILL CREEK 3
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MILL CREEK 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Jesseton	6.8 miles	17
Speake	7.6 miles	17
Pinhook	9.4 miles	18
Oakville	9.4 miles	17
Aldridge Grove	10.1 miles	17
Five Points	11.3 miles	17
Kitchens Mill	11.7 miles	17
Fairfield	11.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 160386. 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.