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.
Population over time
2 figuresPleasant 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8,785 | |
| 2020 | 10,147 | +1,362 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1905 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Des Moines SE quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2007Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capitol Hill Sandstone Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Goodwin Brick and Tile Co. Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Occurrence | Zinc | Past Producer | Sphalerite | |
| Avon Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Bowser Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pickle Farm Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Se 22nd St. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| White Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Flood | Pleasant Hill | $300,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Flood | Pleasant Hill | $100,000 | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Flood | Pleasant Hill | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Flood | Pleasant Hill | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Flood | Pleasant Hill | $15,000 | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Pleasant Hill | $15,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Pleasant Hill | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Pleasant Hill | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Pleasant Hill | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Pleasant Hill | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Flood | Pleasant Hill | - | no account filed |
| February 2005 | Hail | Pleasant Hill | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carbondale | 0.9 miles | 16 | |
| East Des Moines | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Rising Sun | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Hastie | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| Levey | 2.6 miles | 16 | |
| Easton Place | 3.1 miles | 16 | |
| Country Estate Village | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Capitol Heights | 3.4 miles | 16 |
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 Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1903220 | 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 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.








