Mount Pleasant, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Coopers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31031. The Survey maps it on the Napier Pond quadrangle.

Mount Pleasant within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1916 USGS Irwinton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1920 USGS Irwinton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Napier Pond quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

332 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 332 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,100 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 13 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 burning	184
Equipment and vehicle use	35
Smoking	26
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Natural	15
Arson/incendiarism	13
Recreation and ceremony	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 1999	Natural	23 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BALDWIN012
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BALDWIN-005
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BALDWIN-006
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BALDWIN-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant: 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Drill Site 1	Aluminum	Prospect
General Refractories Mine	Aluminum	Past Producer
Stevens Pottery Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Stevens Works	Kaolin	Producer
Unnamed Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Alluvium
Youngblood Mine	Kaolin	Producer

Every working recorded in Baldwin 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pancras	1.2 miles	10
The Colony	1.8 miles	15
Coopers	2.0 miles	10
Scottsboro	3.0 miles	15
Harrisburg	4.5 miles	15
Carling (historical)	5.0 miles	15
Oconee Old Town (historical)	5.0 miles	15
Hardwick	6.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334777. 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.