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Pleasant Hill, Iowa

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Four Mile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50327. It stands on Little Fourmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Des Moines SE quadrangle. 10,147 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Hill within Polk County

Population over time

2 figures

Pleasant Hill grew from 8,785 to 10,147 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20108,785
202010,147+1,362 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 2007 and 2009, burning about 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
7 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, Zinc, 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
Capitol Hill Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Goodwin Brick and Tile Co. Clay PitClayPast Producer
OccurrenceZincPast ProducerSphalerite
Avon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bowser PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pickle Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Se 22nd St. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
White Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Hill in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2010: 6 hail, 6 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
June 2008FloodPleasant Hill$300,000no account filed
June 2008FloodPleasant Hill$100,000no account filed
March 2010FloodPleasant Hill$50,000no account filed
July 2008FloodPleasant Hill$50,000no account filed
May 2008FloodPleasant Hill$15,000no account filed
September 2005HailPleasant Hill$15,000no account filed
March 2006HailPleasant Hill$10,000no account filed
April 2003HailPleasant Hill$5,000no account filed
June 2002HailPleasant Hill$5,000no account filed
June 2002HailPleasant Hill$5,000no account filed
June 2010FloodPleasant Hill-no account filed
February 2005HailPleasant Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Carbondale0.9 miles16
East Des Moines1.9 miles16
Rising Sun2.1 miles11
Hastie2.2 miles11
Levey2.6 miles16
Easton Place3.1 miles16
Country Estate Village3.2 miles16
Capitol Heights3.4 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on Pleasant HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1903220The 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 460234. 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.