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Mount Pleasant, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Quincy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32352. The Survey maps it on the Mount Pleasant quadrangle.

Mount Pleasant within Gadsden County

Then and now

1954 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mount Pleasant, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mount Pleasant, surveyed 1954

Compare 1954 against another survey:

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

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 1992 and 2020, burning about 965 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning66
Railroad operations and maintenance55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCHAD (20)-0527
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePHILLPIS RD (20)
30 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceNEWBERRY RD **NOV** 20)
30 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceUPTAIN RD (20) 0601
3 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gadsden County

Storms near this place

11 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Pleasant in 11 storm reports between 2012 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMount Pleasant$2,000A tree was blown down onto a power line off of Hazel Green Road.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindMount Pleasant$1,000Power lines were blown down across Howell Road.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindMount Pleasant$1,000A tree was blown down near Mt. Hosey Church Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindMount Pleasant-A tree was blown down along Mt. Pleasant Road.
September 2024Flash FloodMount Pleasant-Road closures occurred in Gadsden county due to washouts from flash flooding.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindMount Pleasant-A tree was blown down in the 3400 block of Hutchinson Ferry Road.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindMount Pleasant-A tree was blown down onto Hough Farm Road.
December 2018FloodMount Pleasant-A bridge washed out on Peck Betts Road due to a long duration of rainfall.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindMount Pleasant-A tree was blown down near Mt Pleasant.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMount Pleasant-A couple of trees were blown down in Mt Pleasant.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindMount Pleasant-A tree was blown down near Crystal Road in the vicinity of Howell Road.

Every storm recorded in Gadsden 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
Hardaway3.0 miles13
Gretna3.2 miles14
Oak Grove3.3 miles13
Douglas City5.1 miles14
Rosedale6.2 miles13
Greensboro6.7 miles14
Attapulgas (historical)7.2 miles13
Quincy7.5 miles13

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 PleasantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6922814The 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 287293. 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.