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Pine Mountain, Georgia

10 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 31822. The Survey maps it on the Pine Mountain quadrangle. 1,216 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Pine Mountain within Harris County

On record in Pine Mountain

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Pine Mountain fell from 1,304 to 1,216 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,304
20201,216-88 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

5 photographs, 1938 to 2017

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.

Rural home in the unincorporated community of Pine Mountain Valley, Georgia
Rural home in the unincorporated community of Pine Mountain Valley, Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Dirt road through the pines in the unincorporated community of Pine Mountain Valley, Georgia
Dirt road through the pines in the unincorporated community of Pine Mountain Valley, Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright, e.g. University of Virginia, Franconia, New Hampshire, Maine. Client of Pine Mountain Valley Rural Community Corporation
Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright, e.g. University of Virginia, Franconia, New Hampshire, Maine. Client of Pine Mountain Valley Rural Community Corporation
Wright, Barbara, photographer, 1938. Library of Congress
Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright, e.g. University of Virginia, Franconia, New Hampshire, Maine. Entrance sign to Pine Mountain Valley Rural Community Corporation
Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright, e.g. University of Virginia, Franconia, New Hampshire, Maine. Entrance sign to Pine Mountain Valley Rural Community Corporation
Wright, Barbara, photographer, 1938. Library of Congress
Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright, e.g. University of Virginia, Franconia, New Hampshire, Maine. Pine Mountain Valley
Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright, e.g. University of Virginia, Franconia, New Hampshire, Maine. Pine Mountain Valley
Wright, Barbara, photographer, 1938. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Pine Mountain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 717 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 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 burning95
Arson/incendiarism15
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural3

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
23 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HARRIS003
21 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-HARRIS-004
19 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HARRIS-007
8 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-HARRIS-003
25 August 2011Arson/incendiarism3.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HARRIS-005
2 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Mountain in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 hail. 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
April 1997HailPine Mountain-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Mountainbrook0.5 miles10
Champion Crossroad1.3 miles10
Tip Top4.3 miles10
Smiths Crossroads4.6 miles11
Pine Mountain Valley4.8 miles10
Wisdoms Store (historical)6.0 miles11
Hopewell6.0 miles11
Beech Springs7.2 miles11

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 Pine MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3475885The 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 356471. 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.