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Pleasant Creek, Iowa

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52031. It lies near Bowman Island. The Survey maps it on the Springbrook quadrangle.

Pleasant Creek within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Creek between 2006 and 2014, burning about 403 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeCAFETERIA FIRE
7 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeWHITTON GATE
25 May 2008Natural75 acresSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge1700'S
9 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2011Equipment and vehicle use8.4 acresSavanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife RefugeWHITTON GUARD HOUSE
28 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Creek: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Bellevue Clay Products Co. PitClayPast Producer
Bellevue QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pataska QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shelly QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Creek in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 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
May 2019FloodPleasant Creek-The Mississippi River at Bellevue Lock and Dam 12 began the month above its major flood stage of 20 feet. The river stage at the beginning of the month was 20.81 feet. The river fell below major flood stage around 4 PM on May 3rd.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Green Island4.5 miles15
Bellevue4.6 miles18
Springbrook5.5 miles13
North Bellevue6.1 miles18
Reeceville6.7 miles15
Rockaway (historical)6.8 miles13
Twin Springs7.0 miles15
Van Buren8.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464195. 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.