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Pleasant Grove, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Oakman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35579. It stands on Rocky Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jasper quadrangle.

Pleasant Grove within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

276 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 276 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,190 acres in total. None started naturally. 154 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/incendiarism154
Debris and open burning72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony12
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160906-5
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2006Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Glen Allen No. 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Walker 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
Hilliard1.0 miles18
New Jagger1.4 miles17
McCollum2.8 miles17
Sardis2.9 miles17
Townley3.7 miles18
Holly Grove3.7 miles18
Bankhead4.1 miles17
Mountain Valley (historical)4.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 142419. 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.