Pittsburg, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Morris Chapel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35673. It stands on West Shoals Creek. The Survey maps it on the Caddo quadrangle. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Pittsburg within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1936 USGS Caddo quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Caddo quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Caddo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

156 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Pittsburg between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,024 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 58 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	58
Debris and open burning	57
Recreation and ceremony	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160927-8
27 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

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
Harmony	1.6 miles	14
Chalybeate Springs	3.0 miles	14
Midway	3.0 miles	14
Fairfield	3.6 miles	17
Masterson Mill	4.2 miles	13
Longtown	4.3 miles	13
Five Points	4.3 miles	17
Caddo	4.6 miles	14

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 Pittsburg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3389423	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 136802. 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.