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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.

Pleasanton within Decatur County

Population over time

2 figures

Pleasanton 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.

YearPeople Change
201049
202032-17 (-35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

4 since 2015

Regional 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 use2
Debris and open burning2

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 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use16 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177451-02319-07072018-1613
26 April 2018Debris and open burning3.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177457-02319-04262018-1631
6 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation120250-02319-03062015-1434
21 March 2015Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation120941-02319-03212015-1340

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Decatur County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jeffries Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Decatur County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1997HailPleasanton$75,000no account filed
July 2008Flash FloodPleasanton$50,000Water has partially washed out 240th Ave.
September 2010Flash FloodPleasanton$25,000Law enforcement relayed that 290th Ave was washed out in Morgan Township, Section 5.
September 2010Flash FloodPleasanton$10,000Spotter 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 2004HailPleasanton$2,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Decatur 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
New Buda3.8 miles10
Davis City5.4 miles10
Blockly (historical)5.5 miles10
Morgan6.8 miles7
Brucewell7.2 miles7
Togo (historical)8.0 miles11
Terre Haute9.6 miles10
Barrell (historical)10.4 miles10

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 PleasantonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1896738The 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.