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Pleasant Grove, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Jemison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35085. The Survey maps it on the Jemison West quadrangle.

Pleasant Grove within Chilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

187 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 1994 and 2019, burning about 874 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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 burning89
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony16
Smoking11
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20130907-001
7 September 1995Debris and open burning3.1 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190925-1
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190917-21
13 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chilton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove: 7 past producers, 5 producers, 2 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Copper, Iron, Arsenic. 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
B. T. Childers ProspectArsenic, Copper, GoldOccurrence1929
B.T. Childer's ProspectGold, Copper, Iron, ArsenicOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite
Honeycutt's Mill Placer MineGold, IronPast Producer1842, 1892
Frye Shale PitClayProducer
JemisonClayProducer
Jemison Mine and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jemison QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Pierce PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
B. T. Childer ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Franklin MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chilton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Grove in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2007Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove$500Numerous 2 to 3 inch tree limbs were blown down across roads.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove-Several trees were uprooted along Highway 191.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove-Motor vehicle damaged by falling tree.

Every storm recorded in Chilton 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
Hubbard2.0 miles15
Poseys Crossroads2.3 miles15
Bessie2.5 miles15
Mars Hill2.9 miles15
Campbell3.4 miles15
Jemison3.7 miles15
Center Hill3.7 miles15
Thorsby4.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156906. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.