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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.

Pittsview within Russell County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

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.

Richardson-Quarles-Comer House, U.S. Highway 431 vicinity, Pittsview, Russell County, AL
Richardson-Quarles-Comer House, U.S. Highway 431 vicinity, Pittsview, Russell County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

87 since 1994

Regional 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
15 September 2010Smoking20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 17 OFF HWY 80, AL
11 August 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160727-4
19 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined465 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionDUDLEY
5 June 2007Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 June 2015Natural157 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20150626-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2009Flash FloodPittsview$10,000An estimated 6 inches of rain in a short time caused several dirt roads to become washed out near the Pittsview community.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindPittsview$8,000Several 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 1999Thunderstorm WindPittsview$8,000Numerous trees and power lines knocked down just east of Pittsview near the intersection of CR 4 and CR 39.
March 2003HailPittsview$5,000A supercell thunderstorm produced a swath of golf ball size hail from near the Rutherford community, to Pittsview, to near Cottonton.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindPittsview-Several trees uprooted in the town of Pittsview.
March 2005HailPittsview-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.

Every storm recorded in Russell 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
Hirsch2.5 miles10
Hooks3.7 miles10
Glennville4.2 miles10
McLendon4.3 miles10
Persons5.1 miles8
Villula5.4 miles20
Cottonton5.5 miles10
Jernigan6.4 miles10

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 PittsviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7199512The 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.