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Pleasant Hill, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Blairsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30512. It stands on Pleasant Hill. The Survey maps it on the Blairsville quadrangle.

Pleasant Hill within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

383 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 383 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 503 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 19 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 burning265
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Arson/incendiarism19
Smoking16
Equipment and vehicle use16
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-UNION-001
8 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestCOLWELL ROAD
4 September 1999Debris and open burning2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestIVY LOG GAP
24 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill: 6 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Corundum. 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
Track Rock Corundum MineCorundumPast Producer
Wellborn Mountain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Butt MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Gum Log/J.H. Brown/Brown/Placer MinesGoldPast ProducerVein
Killian MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Legal Tender MineGoldProspectVein
Lot 184 MineGoldUnknownVein
Mauney ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Ross MineGoldUnknownVein
Wellborn-Robinson PropertyGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Hill in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPleasant Hill$4,000The Union County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down on Piney Point Road and Wolf Pen Gap Road.
March 2021Flash FloodPleasant Hill-The Emergency Manager reported high water conditions on Butternut Creek near Union County Farmers Market, inundating Old Smokey Road and Weaver Road. Radar estimates indicate that rainfall in the area ranged between 5 to 8 inches, resulting in the flash flooding.
June 2014HailPleasant Hill-The Union County 911 Center reported quarter-sized hail near Canal Lake.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Canal Lake0.6 miles23
Youngstown1.1 miles23
Notalee Orchards1.5 miles23
Blairsville1.9 miles23
Spilo (historical)2.8 miles23
Spile2.8 miles23
Pleasant Grove4.1 miles23
Ebenezer4.2 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 353165. 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.

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.