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Pleasant Ridge, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It lies in ZIP code area 42376. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Ridge quadrangle.

Pleasant Ridge within Ohio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

20 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Ridge between 2000 and 2017, burning about 130 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony6
Debris and open burning5

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestry764 FIRE
20 April 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2001Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2017Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBOLING ROAD
9 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2001Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Ridge in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 2 hail. 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
May 2024HailPleasant Ridge-Quarter sized hail was observed in northwestern Ohio County.
May 2000HailPleasant Ridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ohio 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
Buford2.4 miles13
Bells Run3.1 miles13
Taffy5.9 miles13
Heflin6.4 miles14
Beda6.6 miles13
Adaburg7.4 miles13
Ralph8.1 miles13
No Creek8.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 500888. 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.