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Pleasant Valley, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the South Gilmer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30175. The Survey maps it on the Dyke quadrangle.

Pleasant Valley within Gilmer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

209 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 715 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 68 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 burning104
Arson/incendiarism68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Smoking8
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gilmer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley: 10 past producers, 6 producers, 2 prospects, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension, Iron, Dolomite. 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
J F Hillhouse ProspectsMicaProspect
Mill No 4 Ga Marble CoDolomiteProducer
Georgia-Tioga Iron Co. MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Georgia-Tioga Iron Company MineIronPast Producer
Tioga Iron Co MineIronPast Producer
Lots 142 & 143Marble, DimensionProspect
Marble Quarry UnnamedMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Marble Quarry UnnamedMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Marble Quarry UnnamedMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Unnamed Marble MineMarble, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gilmer County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Valley in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2013: 1 hail, 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
August 2013Flash FloodPleasant Valley$25,000The Gilmer County emergency manager reported several creeks were out of their banks in the south portion of the county and causing flooding on Knight Road...Talona Road...Whitestone Road between Georgia Highways 5 and 515...Roundtop Road...Holder Road...Raven Cliff Road and Leeches Road. The stage height of a USGS stream gage on the Fausett Creek at Yukon Road northeast of Talking Rock reached flood stage of 10 feet. The creek crest at 12.9 feet and caused minor flooding of creek access roads...woodlands and fields.
March 2005HailPleasant Valley-The public reported penny-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Gilmer 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
Gartrell (historical)2.7 miles20
Whitestone3.0 miles20
Dyke3.1 miles18
Talona3.2 miles20
Tioga3.4 miles20
Yukon3.7 miles17
Town Creek4.1 miles20
Snider (historical)4.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332715. 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.