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Pleasant Hill, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42345. It stands on Opossum Run. The Survey maps it on the Greenville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pleasant Hill within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

46 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill (historical) between 1997 and 2019, burning about 723 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony13
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
24 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2010Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDOG LADY
7 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEECH CREEK
24 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2007Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryBLIND FIRE
26 June 2012Debris and open burning1.1 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHORT BLAC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Jernigan Chapel (historical)1.6 miles16
Greenville2.3 miles16
Carters Creek (historical)3.5 miles15
Leighs (historical)4.0 miles15
Ebenezer4.3 miles15
Luzerne4.3 miles16
Powderly4.3 miles16
Liberty Hill (historical)4.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743028. 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.