Mount Pleasant, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Uriah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36480. It stands on Big Nancey Branch. The Survey maps it on the Chrysler quadrangle.

Mount Pleasant within Monroe County

On record in Mount Pleasant

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

Judge Ferrell House, Old Federal Road (Chrysler vicinity), Mount Pleasantfederal building survey, 1 photograph

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Chrysler quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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.

Judge Ferrell House, Old Federal Road (Chrysler vicinity), Mount Pleasant, Monroe County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,274 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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	29
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
26 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	44 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Smoking	24 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2010	Natural	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140816-002
26 July 2000	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2000	Natural	150 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 July 2000	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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
Eliska	1.5 miles	8
Chrysler	2.0 miles	8
Grove Hill	4.4 miles	7
Mineola	5.0 miles	8
Homewood	5.7 miles	8
Palmers Crossroads	8.1 miles	8
Jeddo	9.6 miles	8
Uriah	10.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156751. 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.