Mount Pleasant, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Fruithurst census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36262. It stands on Town Creek. The Survey maps it on the Heflin quadrangle.

Mount Pleasant within Cleburne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1900 USGS Anniston quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Heflin quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Heflin quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Anniston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2001 USGS Heflin quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

386 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 386 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 1993 and 2020, burning about 7,922 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 243 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
Arson/incendiarism	243
Debris and open burning	87
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Recreation and ceremony	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Natural	3
Smoking	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
9 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160908-17
28 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160928-35
26 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160926-5
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160926-10
22 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	55 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO.RD.82, AL
19 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne 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
Edwardsville	2.3 miles	17
Coldwater	3.9 miles	16
Fruithurst	4.0 miles	15
Muscadine	6.5 miles	15
Piney Woods	6.8 miles	16
Ai	7.1 miles	15
Heflin	7.6 miles	17
Oak Level	7.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 160171. 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.