BlockPleasant Hill, Georgia
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the North Gilmer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30540. It stands on John Rogers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dyer Gap quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1911 USGS Cohutta Mountain quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Cohutta Mtn quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Cohutta quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Cohutta Mtn. quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Cuhutta quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Dyer Gap quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Dyer Gap quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
107 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,630 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 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 | 61 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-GILMER-001 |
| 17 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-GILMER-001 |
| 15 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2015-GILMER-001 |
| 10 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 June 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 June 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 June 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | EMORY CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Hill in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2008: 2 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Hail | Pleasant Hill | - | The Gilmer County 911 Center relayed a report of penny-sized hail from the far northwest part of the county in the Pleasant Hill area. This was from yet another severe thunderstorm that tracked from north to south across the western part of the county. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Pleasant Hill | - | The public reported baseball-sized hail one mile from the Pickens county line in southern Gilmer county near Pleasant Hill. The public and amateur radio operators reported penny to nickel-sized hail in Ellijay. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ollie | 0.4 miles | 19 | |
| Conasauga (historical) | 2.0 miles | 23 | |
| Mountaintown | 2.2 miles | 23 | |
| Ratcliff (historical) | 2.3 miles | 19 | |
| Elders | 4.2 miles | 19 | |
| Roosevelt | 4.4 miles | 19 | |
| Tails Creek | 4.5 miles | 19 | |
| New Hope | 5.3 miles | 19 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332711. 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.
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.