Pleasant Grove, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cairo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39827. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cairo North quadrangle.

Pleasant Grove within Grady County

On record in Pleasant Grove

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Pope's Museumlisted 2022 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Cairo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Cairo North quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

356 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 356 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 853 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 27 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	265
Arson/incendiarism	27
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Smoking	14
Recreation and ceremony	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	5

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 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grady 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
Akridge	0.6 miles	12
Capel	1.6 miles	12
Woodland	3.2 miles	12
Elpino	3.6 miles	12
Spence	3.8 miles	9
Union Hill	5.5 miles	9
Long Branch	5.9 miles	12
Oak Grove (historical)	6.4 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 342522. 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.