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Pleasant Ridge, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Henderson-Spring Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36035. It stands on Dolton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Goshen quadrangle.

Pleasant Ridge within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

61 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Ridge between 1994 and 2018, burning about 538 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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/incendiarism19
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150810-003
5 June 2007Natural7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 1996Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 June 2015Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150615-001
11 June 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionHENDERSON LN, AL
9 May 2018Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180509-7
26 May 2016Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160526-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 75 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 75 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Ridge: 40 unknowns, 30 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Pik 7 Clay ProspectClayProspect
O D Warren ProspectIronProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Henderson1.0 miles8
Palmyra1.5 miles8
Baltic2.8 miles8
Dogwood Acres2.9 miles8
Sanders Hill3.0 miles8
Little Oak4.6 miles8
Centre Ridge (historical)4.8 miles11
Goshen5.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 125028. 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.