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Pronto, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Banks-Josie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36081. The Survey maps it on the Banks quadrangle. It stands 479 feet above sea level.

Pronto within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Pronto between 1994 and 2019, burning about 267 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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 1997Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-12
20 September 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission7904 HIGHWAY 10, AL
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120912-001
12 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of Pronto: 39 unknowns, 14 past producers, 11 occurrences, 4 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Pik 8 Clay ProspectClayProspect
G P Taylor ProspectIronProspect
Miss Annie Bass ProspectIronUnknown
R L Godwin ProspectIronProspect
R L Godwinn ProspectIronProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Windmill Hills2.0 miles11
Hillcrest2.2 miles11
Broad View2.3 miles11
Brundidge2.6 miles11
Green Ridge3.2 miles11
Antioch3.8 miles8
Banks4.2 miles7
Shiloh4.2 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q18344997The 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 153069. 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.