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Mount Pleasant, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Claxton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30417. It stands on Rocky Branch. The Survey maps it on the Daisy quadrangle.

Mount Pleasant within Evans County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

536 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 536 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,464 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 100 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 burning303
Arson/incendiarism100
Misuse of fire by a minor33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Smoking21
Natural18
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony11
Railroad operations and maintenance6

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
9 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2016Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-EVANS-005
28 September 1996Debris and open burning2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1996Debris and open burning2.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1993Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2018Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019EVANS001
21 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Evans 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 Mount Pleasant: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Daisy MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Evans 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
Daisy2.5 miles19
Claxton2.9 miles18
Edna3.6 miles19
Palatkee (historical)4.1 miles19
Hagan4.5 miles18
Bellville6.6 miles18
Deans Crossing6.8 miles19
Undine7.1 miles18

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 Q65085431The 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 345942. 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.