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Pinson, Alabama

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Birmingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35126. It lies near Sweeney Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Pinson quadrangle. 7,215 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Pinson within Jefferson County

On record in Pinson

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Pinson grew from 7,163 to 7,215 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20107,163
20207,215+52 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

135 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Pinson between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,132 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 51 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/incendiarism51
Debris and open burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-4
24 September 2016Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-7
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-19
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Arson/incendiarism60 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Pinson: 17 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Manganese, 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
Jef 3 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Mt Pinson MinesIron, ManganesePast ProducerGoethite
J O Norris ProspectIronOccurrence
Mt. Pinson MinesIronPast ProducerResidual
TarrantIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinson in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 11 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud. 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
January 1997Thunderstorm WindPinson$10,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindPinson$7,000Several trees were blown down in and around Pinson.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPinson$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down, and a tree caught on fire, on Old Springville and Clay Roads.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindPinson$2,000A few trees and power lines were blown down on Jackson Road in Pinson.
April 2007Funnel CloudPinson-Reported in the Village Springs Community along SR 75.
April 2006HailPinson-Penny to quarter sized hail fell for several minutes.
May 2003Funnel CloudPinson-A funnel cloud was reported over Pinson. Several other funnel clouds were reported across Jefferson County.
February 2001HailPinson-Quarter size hail fell in Pinson.
February 2000HailPinson-Dime size hail was reported near the Pinson Valley High School.
March 2000HailPinson-Several reports of nickel to quarter size hail were received in and around the city of Pinson.
December 2000HailPinson-Penny size hail was observed in Pinson and Fultondale.
May 1999HailPinson-Dime size hail was reported in Pinson.
April 1998HailPinson-Dime size hail was reported in Pinson by storm spotters.
March 2021HailPinson-no account filed
April 2006HailPinson-no account filed
April 2006HailPinson-no account filed
April 2006HailPinson-no account filed
July 1996Funnel CloudPinson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Fitzgerald Estates1.0 miles28
Innsbrooke1.6 miles28
Ridgewood2.0 miles28
Woodaire Estates2.1 miles28
Arrowhead2.2 miles28
Centercrest2.3 miles28
Heatherwood2.3 miles28
Larkwood2.5 miles28

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on PinsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79303The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 152950. 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.