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Pleasant Hill, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rainsville-Sylvania census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35968. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Chavies quadrangle.

Pleasant Hill within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

88 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1997 and 2019, burning about 649 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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 burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190905-7
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-20
28 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-17
28 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-43
28 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-31
28 September 2016Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-26
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140927-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill: 4 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Dekalb CountyIronUnknown
Fort Payne ProspectsIronProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Hill in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
April 2022Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill$3,000A flag pole attached to a house was bent 90 degrees, parts of a fence were blown away, and small limbs were blown down. This occurred on CR 445.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill-Reports across the county of trees being knocked down.
February 2011HailPleasant Hill-Quarter size hail was reported in the Pleasant Hill area.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill-Damaging straight-line winds ripped material from a barn and part of its roof along with uprooting a nearby tree.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Luna (historical)0.5 miles21
Lydia1.0 miles21
Bootsville (historical)1.4 miles21
Guest2.4 miles21
Chavies2.5 miles21
Pine Ridge2.6 miles21
Lands Crossroads3.0 miles21
Hughes Mill3.0 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 150460. 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.