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East Pleasant Plain, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Penn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52540. The Survey maps it on the Brighton quadrangle. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

East Pleasant Plain within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

48 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of East Pleasant Plain between 2008 and 2020, burning about 429 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2017Smokingunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources1384 HWY 1 & HWY 78, BRIGHTON, IOWA, IOWA
29 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 2018Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2014Debris and open burning6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of East Pleasant Plain: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Germanville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Old Brighton QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Slater QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Pleasant Plain0.9 miles7
Veo3.3 miles7
Perlee4.6 miles7
Germanville4.8 miles7
Salina6.3 miles7
Merrimac7.8 miles7
Beckwith8.8 miles7
Maharishi Vedic City9.6 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q31811318The 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 456190. 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.