Mount Pleasant, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Casco Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49090. The Survey maps it on the Lacota quadrangle.

Mount Pleasant within Allegan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1927 USGS Bangor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1931 USGS Bangor quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Bangor quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Lacota quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

2,423 words on this township

A Twentieth Century History of Allegan County, Michigan, published 1907 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Casco Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Casco Township - 2,423 words.

Fires near this place

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 2018 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0001340 - 2019
5 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000668 - 2018
3 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000506 - 2019
28 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000609 - 2018
2 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000500 - 2019
2 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLYDE TOWNSHIP FD 0000032 - 2019
13 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000557 - 2019
10 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000537 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allegan 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Miami Park	0.6 miles	11
South Haven Highlands	0.6 miles	11
Cedar Bluff	2.0 miles	11
Hawkhead	2.3 miles	11
Glenn Haven Shores	2.5 miles	11
Hollywood	2.5 miles	11
Glenn Stores	2.9 miles	11
Glenn Shores	3.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 632833. 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.