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Pleasant Hill, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Little Texas-Society Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36083. It stands on Choctahatchee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Little Texas quadrangle.

Pleasant Hill within Macon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

192 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,138 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 64 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/incendiarism64
Debris and open burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Smoking22
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170909-2
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170909-3
6 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-3
22 September 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160922-3
2 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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
Cheshire PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Connor PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Macon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Hill in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 2 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
January 2007Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill$3,000A few trees and tree limbs were blown down at County Road 89 and US 80, east of Tuskegee.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill-Numerous trees uprooted along U.S. Highway 29.

Every storm recorded in Macon 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
Little Texas2.7 miles10
Alliance3.2 miles10
Tuskegee4.7 miles11
Chehaw5.7 miles11
Notasulga7.7 miles11
Seasha7.9 miles11
Clough8.0 miles9
Society Hill9.3 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156910. 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.