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Pleasant Grove Estates, 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. The Survey maps it on the Bessemer quadrangle.

Pleasant Grove Estates 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

162 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove Estates between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,296 acres in total. None started naturally. 76 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/incendiarism76
Debris and open burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2

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
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-27
29 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-8
26 September 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-16
21 September 2019Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-23

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove Estates: 3 occurrences, 2 plants, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Clay. 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
Alpha Portland Cement Company PlantStonePlant
Watkins Number 1 PitClayProducer
IronatonIronUnknown
IronatonIronUnknown
U S Steel/ Fairfield, Ala.IronPlant
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
Pleasant Grove0.6 miles24
Westfield1.1 miles24
Cottage Hill1.2 miles24
Minniesville1.4 miles24
Exum1.6 miles28
Dolomite1.9 miles24
Highland Forest1.9 miles24
Pleasant Acres2.0 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 124968. 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.