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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.

Pleasant Grove within Sutter County

Then and now

1891 to 1994

The 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 sheet of Pleasant Grove, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Pleasant Grove, surveyed 1891

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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

145 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined81
Equipment and vehicle use40
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning7
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMOORE
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitBREWER
24 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
22 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
22 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitREASON
20 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
2 September 1998Smoking3.0 acresNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitBRACE
17 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionBREWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sutter County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2025FloodPleasant Grove1 killedCalifornia 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 2023FloodPleasant Grove-Broadcast media reported roadway flooding between Fifield Road and Pleasant Grove Road.
March 2014Tornado (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.

Every storm recorded in Sutter 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
Sankey3.2 miles27
Catlett3.3 miles20
Striplin (historical)4.4 miles20
Counsman5.2 miles33
Trowbridge6.4 miles20
East Nicolaus6.8 miles20
Joes Landing7.0 miles20
Nicolaus7.4 miles20

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 GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7203795The 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.