Pleasant Grove, Kansas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Willow Springs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66047. The Survey maps it on the Lone Star quadrangle. It stands 1,086 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1885 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000
- 1889 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Lone Star quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
59 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 2015 and 2018, burning about 253 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Douglas County | 297 |
| 7 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 707181 |
| 22 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Douglas County | 237 |
| 19 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 39 |
| 15 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 5955 |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 39 |
| 8 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Douglas County | 102 |
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 405181 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Grove in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | $4,000 | Strong winds knocked down power lines and tore the roof off of a shed. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | $2,000 | Power lines are down 2 miles northwest of Vinland. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | $1,000 | A tree was blown down across Highway 59 at intersection with North 600 Road. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | - | EM relayed report of power lines downed in the 800 block of E1500 road. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | - | Personal weather station recorded gust. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | - | Measured wind gust of 63 mph. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | - | Measured on a personal weather station. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | - | Tree limbs 3 inches in diameter down. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Pleasant Grove | - | Mostly dime size hail with a few nickels reported. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | - | Trained spotters near Lawrence reported 60 mph winds. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | - | Sixty to seventy mile per hour winds estimated by several spotters. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Pleasant Grove | - | Heavy rains produced flash flooding in souther Douglas county near Pleasant Grove. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Pleasant Grove | - | Large hail caused spotty but serious damage to crops. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Pleasant Grove | - | A small tornado touched down briefly in open country south of Lawrence. No damage reported or observed. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Pleasant Grove | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Pleasant Grove | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Pleasant Grove | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Pleasant Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Pleasant Grove | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Pleasant Grove | - | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sibleyville | 4.4 miles | 19 | |
| Lone Star | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Vinland | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Broken Arrow Park | 5.4 miles | 19 | |
| Worden | 6.1 miles | 18 | |
| Baldwin City | 7.1 miles | 17 | |
| Clinton | 7.5 miles | 20 | |
| Noria | 8.1 miles | 19 |
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7203802 | 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 479511. 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.
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.







