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Pleasant Grove, Florida

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Pensacola census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32507. The Survey maps it on the Fort Barrancas quadrangle.

Pleasant Grove within Escambia County

Then and now

1921 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 73 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 1921

Compare 1921 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

215 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,226 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 16 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
Equipment and vehicle use49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Natural17
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism16
Fireworks7
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2014Natural1.6 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSORRENTO (17)
5 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHARBOR PLACE (17)
2 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
E. K. Edwards - Blue Angel MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Grove in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove-Mesonet station FW7996 Perdido Key gusted to 77mph.

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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
Sherman Grove1.0 miles20
Quinavista2.2 miles20
Beach Haven2.7 miles18
Seaglades3.1 miles20
Navy Point3.1 miles18
Fort Pickens3.2 miles20
Chanticleer3.7 miles20
Haven Park3.9 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 289047. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.