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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.

Pleasant Grove within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

59 since 2015

Regional 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas County297
7 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service707181
22 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreDouglas County237
19 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service39
15 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service5955
8 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service39
8 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresDouglas County102
5 April 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresKansas Forest Service405181

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

22 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove$4,000Strong winds knocked down power lines and tore the roof off of a shed.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove$2,000Power lines are down 2 miles northwest of Vinland.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove$1,000A tree was blown down across Highway 59 at intersection with North 600 Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove-EM relayed report of power lines downed in the 800 block of E1500 road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove-Personal weather station recorded gust.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove-Measured wind gust of 63 mph.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove-Measured on a personal weather station.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove-Tree limbs 3 inches in diameter down.
May 2017HailPleasant Grove-Mostly dime size hail with a few nickels reported.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove-Trained spotters near Lawrence reported 60 mph winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove-Sixty to seventy mile per hour winds estimated by several spotters.
May 2002Flash FloodPleasant Grove-Heavy rains produced flash flooding in souther Douglas county near Pleasant Grove.
May 1994HailPleasant Grove-Large hail caused spotty but serious damage to crops.
May 1993Tornado (F0)Pleasant Grove-A small tornado touched down briefly in open country south of Lawrence. No damage reported or observed.
June 2018HailPleasant Grove-no account filed
March 2017HailPleasant Grove-no account filed
April 2011HailPleasant Grove-no account filed
April 2002HailPleasant Grove-no account filed
May 2002HailPleasant Grove-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove-no account filed
April 2000HailPleasant Grove-no account filed
March 1993Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Sibleyville4.4 miles19
Lone Star4.6 miles18
Vinland4.8 miles17
Broken Arrow Park5.4 miles19
Worden6.1 miles18
Baldwin City7.1 miles17
Clinton7.5 miles20
Noria8.1 miles19

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 GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7203802The 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.