Pine Mountain Valley, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Shiloh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31811. The Survey maps it on the Pine Mountain quadrangle.

Pine Mountain Valley within Harris County

On record in Pine Mountain Valley

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 1 record

Bethlehem Baptist Church Colored Schoollisted 2008

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.

1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Pine Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

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
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress

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
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
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
Wright, Barbara, photographer, 1938. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

183 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Pine Mountain Valley between 1992 and 2019, burning about 581 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 20 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	119
Arson/incendiarism	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HARRIS-006
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HARRIS003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Mountain Valley in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Mountain Valley	$2,000	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Tip Top	2.5 miles	10
Hamilton	3.9 miles	10
Mountainbrook	4.4 miles	10
Champion Crossroad	4.4 miles	10
Pine Mountain	4.8 miles	10
Smiths Crossroads	6.5 miles	11
Oak Mountain	6.5 miles	16
Kingsboro	6.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356473. 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.