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Pleasant Hill, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Butler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36908. It stands on Middle Tallawampa Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ararat quadrangle.

Pleasant Hill within Choctaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 363 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony4
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
5 September 2007Natural5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionPLEASANT HILL RD, AL
24 August 2000Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190816-13
5 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20130718-001
17 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Hill in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 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
September 1996Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill$1,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Choctaw 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
Lou0.8 miles12
Thornton Springs1.9 miles12
Wimbly2.1 miles12
Chappell Hill3.4 miles12
Spring Hill4.3 miles12
Ararat4.4 miles12
Lusk4.7 miles12
Hodgewood4.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 152987. 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.

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.