BlockPine Lake, Georgia
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pine Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31833. The Survey maps it on the Whitesville quadrangle.
On record in Pine Lake
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Georgia DOT Bridge No. 145/01427/F/00050E, Spanning Long Cane Creek at County Road 29, Pine Lakefederal building survey, 7 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1907 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:125000
- 1909 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Whitesville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000
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
94 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Pine Lake between 1992 and 2017, burning about 695 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 13 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 | 50 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2013-HARRIS-002 |
| 2 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2015-HARRIS-002 |
| 14 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 2007 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 August 1996 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 August 2002 | Natural | 3.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-TROUP-003 |
| 9 July 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitesville | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| New Hope | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Shady Grove | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Clines Crossroads | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Copeland (historical) | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Beech Springs | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Hopewell | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Wisdoms Store (historical) | 5.4 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350998. 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.