Pleasant Ridge, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mantua-West Greene census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35462. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Ridge quadrangle. It stands 305 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Ridge within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Pleasant Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

41 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Ridge between 1995 and 2020, burning about 518 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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/incendiarism	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	9
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
25 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20150925-004
23 September 1998	Smoking	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	44 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 June 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 June 2017	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170614-3
12 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 May 2002	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Ridge: 2 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Aluminum, Kaolin, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Fair Lumber Co. Prospect	Aluminum, Kaolin	Occurrence
Fair Lumber Co. Prospect	Aluminum	Prospect
Gre 3 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Lewiston Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pickens Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Greene 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ridge	3.5 miles	12
Lewiston	3.8 miles	11
Morrows Grove	5.4 miles	10
West Greene	6.2 miles	7
New West Greene	6.8 miles	8
Clinton	8.5 miles	14
Mantua	8.6 miles	10
Union	9.1 miles	14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Pleasant Ridge	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058537	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155209. 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.