Pine Level, Montgomery County, Alabama

Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States

Pine Level, Alabama

Unincorporated community

Pine Level

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Coordinates: 32°04′05″N 86°03′35″W﻿ / ﻿32.06806°N 86.05972°W﻿ / 32.06806; -86.05972
Country| United States
State| Alabama
County| Montgomery
Elevation

| 489 ft (149 m)
Population

(2007)

• Total

| 1,782
Time zone| UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)| UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code|

36069

Area code| 334
GNIS feature ID| 152926[1]

Pine Level, also known as Pine Tucky, is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama, United States. Pine Level is located along U.S. Route 231 (also known as Alabama State Route 53), 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Montgomery.

## History

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Pine Level was originally known as Pine Tucky, most likely due to its location on poor sandy soil covered with pine trees. The community later began to be called Pine Level.[2] A post office first opened under the name Pine Level in 1839.[3]

## Notable people

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* Rosa Parks, her arrest served as a catalyst to the Montgomery bus boycott during the Civil Rights Movement. She lived in Pine Level as a child.
* Claudette Colvin, arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus, nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested for doing the same thing. She lived in Pine Level until she was 8-years-old.

## References

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1. ^ "Pine Level". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. ^ Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 111\. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.
3. ^ "Montgomery County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 18, 2015.

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Municipalities and communities of Montgomery County, Alabama, United States

County seat: Montgomery

City|

* Montgomery

Map of Alabama highlighting Montgomery County

Town|

* Pike Road

Unincorporated
communities|

* Ada
* Boylston
* Cecil
* Currys
* Dublin
* Grady
* Hope Hull
* Lapine‡
* Le Grand
* Mathews
* McDade
* Mount Meigs
* Pine Level
* Pintlala
* Ramer
* Red Level
* Snowdoun
* Waugh

Indian reservation|

* Poarch Creek Indian Reservation‡

Footnotes|

‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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