BlockMount Pleasant, Delaware
32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Middletown-Odessa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19709. The Survey maps it on the Saint Georges quadrangle. It stands 69 feet above sea level.
On record in Mount Pleasant
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
A. Eliason Houselisted 1985 · 0.4 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 32 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.
- 1904 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1919 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Saint Georges quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Saint Georges quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 2006 and 2017, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 March 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 14 March 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 13 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 14 March 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 8 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | BETHEL WMA |
| 1 November 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
| 28 January 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Pleasant in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1993 | Tornado (F2) | Mount Pleasant | $50,000 | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Run Farm | 0.7 miles | 32 | |
| Meadowbrook Farms | 0.7 miles | 32 | |
| Meadowbrook Farms South | 0.8 miles | 32 | |
| Jamisons Corner | 1.5 miles | 32 | |
| Summit Bridge | 1.9 miles | 32 | |
| Armstrong | 2.1 miles | 29 | |
| Lorewood Grove | 2.4 miles | 32 | |
| Airmont Acres | 2.4 miles | 32 |
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 Mount Pleasant | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6922808 | 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 214349. 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.