Pleasant Grove, California
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the South Sutter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95668. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Grove quadrangle. It stands 49 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1891 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 27 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1893 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:125000
- 1910 USGS Pleasant Grove quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Markham Ravine quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Pleasant Grove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1967 USGS Pleasant Grove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
145 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,674 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 81 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 40 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | MOORE |
| 28 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | BREWER |
| 24 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 22 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 22 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | REASON |
| 20 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 2 September 1998 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | BRACE |
| 17 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | BREWER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Grove in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2025 | Flood | Pleasant Grove | 1 killed | California Highway Patrol reported that a 71 year old man drowned after his car was swept into a creek crossing as a bridge flooded on Fifield Road in Pleasant Grove in Sutter County due to heavy rain. |
| March 2023 | Flood | Pleasant Grove | - | Broadcast media reported roadway flooding between Fifield Road and Pleasant Grove Road. |
| March 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Pleasant Grove | - | An EF0 tornado touched down in a field just south of Nicolaus at approximately 5:17pm and lasted a duration of a couple minutes. No damage was reported from the tornado besides swirl marks on the ground. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sankey | 3.2 miles | 27 | |
| Catlett | 3.3 miles | 20 | |
| Striplin (historical) | 4.4 miles | 20 | |
| Counsman | 5.2 miles | 33 | |
| Trowbridge | 6.4 miles | 20 | |
| East Nicolaus | 6.8 miles | 20 | |
| Joes Landing | 7.0 miles | 20 | |
| Nicolaus | 7.4 miles | 20 |
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7203795 | 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 230798. 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.












