Pleasanton, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Hamilton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50065. The Survey maps it on the Pleasanton quadrangle. 32 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,093 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPleasanton fell from 49 to 32 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 | 49 | |
| 2020 | 32 | -17 (-35%) |
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.
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Leon quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Pleasanton between 2015 and 2018, burning about 30 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 16 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177451-02319-07072018-1613 |
| 26 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.6 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177457-02319-04262018-1631 |
| 6 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 120250-02319-03062015-1434 |
| 21 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 120941-02319-03212015-1340 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pleasanton: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Jeffries Quarry & Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasanton in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2010: 3 flash flood, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1997 | Hail | Pleasanton | $75,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Pleasanton | $50,000 | Water has partially washed out 240th Ave. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Pleasanton | $25,000 | Law enforcement relayed that 290th Ave was washed out in Morgan Township, Section 5. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Pleasanton | $10,000 | Spotter reported water rushing over Quarry Road near R46 with water too deep to cross. The Little River was out of its banks in a few areas. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Pleasanton | $2,000 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Buda | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Davis City | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Blockly (historical) | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Morgan | 6.8 miles | 7 | |
| Brucewell | 7.2 miles | 7 | |
| Togo (historical) | 8.0 miles | 11 | |
| Terre Haute | 9.6 miles | 10 | |
| Barrell (historical) | 10.4 miles | 10 |
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 Pleasanton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1896738 | 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 460320. 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.




