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Pleasant Grove, Iowa

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Taylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52045. The Survey maps it on the Epworth quadrangle.

Pleasant Grove within Dubuque County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 2009 and 2018, burning about 33 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
19 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesEPWORTH FIRE DEPT.
7 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources24317 OLD HIGHWAY RD. EPWORTH, IA, IA
20 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources9052 PLACID ROAD EPWORTH, IA 52045, IA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dubuque County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Koopman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mauser FarmStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dubuque 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
Epworth3.8 miles14
Fillmore4.9 miles15
Kidder5.1 miles14
Farley5.6 miles12
Peosta5.8 miles15
Lattnerville7.0 miles14
Bernard7.3 miles15
Centralia7.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 464704. 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.