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Pleasant Gap, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Spring Garden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36272. It stands on Wolf Branch. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Gap within Cherokee 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.

Fires near this place

278 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 278 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Gap between 1993 and 2019, burning about 8,821 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 166 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/incendiarism166
Debris and open burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural5
Fireworks1

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 2007Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarism45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresNational Forests in AlabamaZONE ABC #4
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaZONE ABC #3
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaZONE ABC #2
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaZONE ABC #1
7 September 2008Arson/incendiarism36 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionOFF HWY 278, AL
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism18 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 111 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 111 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Gap: 66 unknowns, 29 past producers, 12 prospects, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, Iron, Manganese. 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
Pope-Brittain DepositManganese, Iron, CobaltProspectWad
Stock PropertyManganese, StoneProspect1949
West Rock Run AreaAluminum, Water, FreePast Producer1891
Augusta MinesCobalt, ManganesePast Producer1918
North of Bluffington DepositsCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Northeastern AlababaCobalt, Iron, ManganesePast Producer1918
Pope HughesCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence1938
R. Stockdale PropertyCobalt, Iron, ManganesePast Producer
W.C. Pope ProspectCobalt, Iron, ManganesePast Producer1918
Agusta MineManganese, Iron, CobaltPast Producer1918

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Spring Garden2.1 miles17
McFrey Crossroads3.0 miles17
Rock Run3.1 miles18
Sidhart (historical)3.4 miles18
Warner (historical)3.5 miles17
Sanford Springs3.5 miles18
Frog Mountain3.8 miles18
Bluffton4.4 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Pleasant GapAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19987601The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 160400. 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.