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Pleasant Site, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Red Bay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35582. It stands on Store Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Site quadrangle. It stands 515 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Site within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

58 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Site between 1997 and 2015, burning about 1,770 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 38 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/incendiarism38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Site in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
November 1996Thunderstorm WindPleasant Site$8,000no account filed
January 2023Thunderstorm WindPleasant Site$2,000Trees and power lines were knocked down on Highway 247.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPleasant Site$1,000Trees were knocked down in Pleasant Site near Pogo.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindPleasant Site$500A tree was downed by thunderstorm winds at Hwy 247 and 21 intersection. The time was estimated by radar.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindPleasant Site$500A tree was downed by thunderstorm winds at Pleasant Site Highway 90 at Troy Thorn Road. The time was estimated by radar.
March 2021Flash FloodPleasant Site-Highway 90 washed away due to flash flooding.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindPleasant Site-Fifty foot portions of metal roofs were blown off of two chicken houses along CR 90 at CR 190. Two trees were knocked down onto homes along CR 90.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Pogo2.8 miles13
White Oak3.8 miles19
Seven Pines4.7 miles11
Halltown6.1 miles11
Jordans Mill6.5 miles11
Burntout6.7 miles11
Piney Bend7.3 miles12
Dempsey7.3 miles12

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 SiteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19987609The 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 125042. 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.

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.