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Pleasant Hill, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Greenwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35022. It stands on Moore Brook. The Survey maps it on the Greenwood quadrangle.

Pleasant Hill 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

137 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,539 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 58 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/incendiarism58
Debris and open burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony13
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
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
7 September 1995Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Arson/incendiarism72 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burning14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission1025 MANOR CIRCLE, AL
3 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill: 24 occurrences, 9 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Dolonah QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mine No. 53Fire Clay (Refractory)Producer
R C Coleman ProspectIron, ManganeseOccurrence
Bessemer MineClayProducer
Bessemer PitClayProducer
No NameIronPast ProducerHematite
O A Griffin ProspectIronOccurrence
Potter MineIronPast Producer
Potter No. 1 MineIronPast Producer
Raimund MineIronPast ProducerHematite

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
Hickory Grove0.8 miles24
Loveless Park0.9 miles24
Rockdale1.4 miles24
McCalla1.6 miles20
Flint Hill1.8 miles20
Red Hill Heights2.0 miles20
Summit Farm2.2 miles24
Eastern Valley2.5 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 124972. 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.