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Pineville, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Northwest Escambia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32568. The Survey maps it on the Walnut Hill quadrangle.

Pineville within Escambia County

Then and now

1942 to 2003

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pineville, surveyed 2003
Topographic sheet of Pineville, surveyed 1942

Compare 1942 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

62 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Pineville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,000 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission23280 OLD WEEKLEY ROAD, AL
26 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission22400 PHILLIPSVILLE RD, AL
22 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-14
26 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140826-001
10 August 2006Natural30 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSPENCE CUTOFF FIRE-1409
11 July 2011Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission22055 CO RD 61, AL
27 June 2019Natural211 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHASTINGS ROAD (17)
25 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190625-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pineville in 1 storm report in 2010: 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
January 2010Flash FloodPineville-Occie Phillips Road closed due to high water covering the roadway.

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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
Walnut Hill4.0 miles15
Enon7.9 miles18
Oak Grove8.2 miles12
Bratt9.4 miles12
McKinnon9.5 miles15
Bay Springs10.2 miles15
Tenile13.1 miles17
McDavid14.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295543. 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.