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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Brighton quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Muscatine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
48 since 2008Regional 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 burning | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 June 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 1384 HWY 1 & HWY 78, BRIGHTON, IOWA, IOWA |
| 29 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Germanville Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Old Brighton Quarries | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Slater Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Plain | 0.9 miles | 7 | |
| Veo | 3.3 miles | 7 | |
| Perlee | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Germanville | 4.8 miles | 7 | |
| Salina | 6.3 miles | 7 | |
| Merrimac | 7.8 miles | 7 | |
| Beckwith | 8.8 miles | 7 | |
| Maharishi Vedic City | 9.6 miles | 7 |
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 Q31811318 | The 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.




