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Pleasant Acres, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Birmingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35127. It stands on Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bessemer quadrangle.

Pleasant Acres within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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.

Fires near this place

165 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Acres between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,349 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 74 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/incendiarism74
Debris and open burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1

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
9 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-14
3 September 1998Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-27
28 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-8
21 September 2019Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-23
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20150902-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Acres: 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
IronatonIronUnknown
IronatonIronUnknown
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Cedarbrook Forest0.4 miles24
Cottage Hill0.8 miles24
Highland Forest0.9 miles24
Hueytown Crest1.1 miles24
Harlem Heights1.3 miles24
Pleasant Grove1.5 miles24
Hueytown1.8 miles24
Dolomite1.9 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1700109. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.