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Pleasant Home, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Owenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40359. The Survey maps it on the New Liberty quadrangle.

Pleasant Home within Owen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Home between 1998 and 2010, burning about 14 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
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 May 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 October 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROB FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owen County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Home: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc. 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
Lockport Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gratz MineBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast Producer1904
K.T.Dome MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Lockport MineBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast ProducerBarite, Galena, Sphalerite
Twin Valley Mine & MillBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPlant

Every working recorded in Owen County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Home in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
March 2024Thunderstorm WindPleasant Home$20,000A building roof was damaged and a few power poles were downed on State Route 22.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindPleasant Home$20,000Roof damage occurred to three barns and one tree was downed due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2015FloodPleasant Home-High water across part of Highway 22 closed one lane.

Every storm recorded in Owen 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
Gratz2.8 miles12
Squiresville3.6 miles9
Owenton4.5 miles9
Cull4.9 miles9
Perry Park5.6 miles9
Monterey5.9 miles12
Hallam6.6 miles9
Moxley6.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 500879. 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.