Mount Pleasant, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Jesup census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31543. It lies near Tob Hammock. The Survey maps it on the Everett quadrangle.

Mount Pleasant within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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.

1918 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1920 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Everett quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Everett quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

196 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,240 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 66 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	66
Natural	49
Debris and open burning	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 1997	Natural	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Natural	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2006	Natural	42 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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
Akin	2.0 miles	16
Lower Sansavilla	4.5 miles	16
Pendarvis	6.3 miles	14
Paradise Park	8.3 miles	14
Gardi	9.6 miles	14
Manningtown	9.6 miles	16
Odessa	11.3 miles	14
Sun Hill	12.9 miles	15

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 Q65085430	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 332435. 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.