Pittsview, Alabama
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cottonton-Seale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36871. It stands on Weolustee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pittsview quadrangle. It stands 239 feet above sea level.
On record in Pittsview
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
Glenn-Thompson Plantationlisted 1980
Glennville Historic Districtlisted 1979
Samuel R. Pitts Plantationlisted 1992
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- Elmoreland, U.S. Highway 241, Glenvillefederal building survey, 28 photographs
- Richardson-Quarles-Comer House, U.S. Highway 431 vicinity, Pittsviewfederal building survey, 5 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Pittsview quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Tuskegee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
87 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Pittsview between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,308 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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 | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2010 | Smoking | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | CR 17 OFF HWY 80, AL |
| 11 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160727-4 |
| 19 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 465 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | DUDLEY |
| 5 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 June 2015 | Natural | 157 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | ECR-20150626-001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pittsview in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2009 | Flash Flood | Pittsview | $10,000 | An estimated 6 inches of rain in a short time caused several dirt roads to become washed out near the Pittsview community. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pittsview | $8,000 | Several trees were blown down or snapped off near CR 4 from Pittsview to Cottonton. Additional tree damage occurred along CR 12 east of Glenville. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pittsview | $8,000 | Numerous trees and power lines knocked down just east of Pittsview near the intersection of CR 4 and CR 39. |
| March 2003 | Hail | Pittsview | $5,000 | A supercell thunderstorm produced a swath of golf ball size hail from near the Rutherford community, to Pittsview, to near Cottonton. |
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pittsview | - | Several trees uprooted in the town of Pittsview. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Pittsview | - | The weakening, left moving supercell still managed to produce severe hail across far southeastern RussellCounty. The reported hail size ranged from penny to nickel size and affected areas in and near Pittsview, Glenville, and Holy Trinity. |
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.
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 Pittsview | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7199512 | 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 152965. 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.
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.




