BlockMount Pleasant, Indiana
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47520. It lies near Shircliff Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Derby quadrangle. It stands 787 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1954 USGS Derby quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Derby quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Derby quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 1998 and 2012, burning about 48 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 August 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | BUZZARD ROOST |
| 16 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | 66 LIGHTNING |
| 17 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | QUARRY |
| 17 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | LIBERTY |
| 7 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Hoosier National Forest | YEOMAN |
| 6 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | CORNFIELD |
| 6 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Hoosier National Forest | FOX FARM FIRE |
| 7 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | ORIOLE POND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Mount Pleasant | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q21197826 | 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 451251. 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.