Pintlala, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hope Hull census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36043. The Survey maps it on the Snowdoun quadrangle. It stands 253 feet above sea level.

Pintlala within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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 Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Letohatchee quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Snowdoun quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

62 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Pintlala between 1994 and 2020, burning about 509 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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 1998	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	M.M. 155 SOUTH BD. OFF I-65, AL
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	78 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160925-19
21 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190921-10
21 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190921-21

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pintlala: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Dixie Sand & Gravel Co., Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Shiloh Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Pine Needles	2.7 miles	11
Canaan	3.9 miles	11
Rolling Acres	4.1 miles	11
Hunting Downs	4.6 miles	11
Fleta	4.6 miles	11
Zion	4.7 miles	11
Tharin	4.9 miles	11
Roxana	5.1 miles	11

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 Pintlala	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19987591	The 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 124905. 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.