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Pleasant Hill, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ozark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36360. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ozark quadrangle.

Pleasant Hill within Dale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

49 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 231 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3

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
29 September 2011Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 231 S, AL
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140901-001
19 August 2007Natural3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200608-2
8 June 2007Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 June 1998Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 June 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160625-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dale 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 Hill: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Dal 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Dale County

Storms near this place

8 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Hill in 8 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill$5,000A tree blew down on a residence and a power pole was snapped.
January 2019Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill$3,000A power line was blown down.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down in the Logan Road area around Ozark. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill$1,000A tree blew down onto Willow Oaks Dr.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill-A tree was blown down on Will Logan Rd near Andrews Ave.
March 2022Flash FloodPleasant Hill-Lowery Road was flooded.
April 2015Flash FloodPleasant Hill-Walker Road was flooded.
April 2014FloodPleasant Hill-Some flooding was reported near the intersection of Alabama 27 and County Road 34.

Every storm recorded in Dale 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
Ozark2.7 miles12
Marley Mill4.5 miles12
Allen Heights5.0 miles13
Ewell5.3 miles13
Plainview5.4 miles14
Dill5.7 miles8
Bowden Terrace6.0 miles13
Dillard6.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 133533. 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.