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Pleasant View, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Saxton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40769. It lies near Sawmill Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Williamsburg quadrangle. 326 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Pleasant View within Whitley County

Population over time

2 figures

Pleasant View fell from 350 to 326 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010350
2020326-24 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

148 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant View between 1993 and 2020, burning about 7,656 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 33 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 burning74
Arson/incendiarism33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2017Arson/incendiarism50 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBETHEL
9 April 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2001Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2001Debris and open burning63 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFEATHER CREEK FIRE
7 April 1997Arson/incendiarism45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitley County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pleasant View: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Cave Creek-Jowl Mt ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Whitley County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant View in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2020LightningPleasant View$7,000The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet reported a commercial vehicle struck by lightning just south of Williamsburg on Interstate 75. This resulted in the vehicle taking out 150 feet of guardrail before going into an embankment and blocking the right southbound lane.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPleasant View$1,000There were tree limbs 3 to 4 inches in diameter blown down.
November 2010FloodPleasant View$1,000Highway 25 south was closed near Pleasant View due to water over road.
July 2008HailPleasant View-no account filed
April 2002Funnel CloudPleasant View-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Whitley 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
Mountain Ash1.4 miles15
Emlyn2.0 miles15
Saxton3.2 miles15
Dal3.3 miles15
Savoy3.4 miles15
Balltown3.8 miles15
Packard3.9 miles15
Dixie4.2 miles15

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 ViewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6080527The 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 514657. 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.