Pleasant Valley, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jasper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48880. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Valley quadrangle.

Pleasant Valley within Midland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1930 USGS Shepherd quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS Shepherd quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Shepherd quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Pleasant Valley quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Midland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley between 1994 and 2019, burning about 39 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MID-MICHIGAN COMMUNITY FD 0000217 - 2019
30 July 2015	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MIDLAND 23
2 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHEPHERD TRI-TOWNSHIP FD 0018350 - 2018
9 June 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MIDLAND 0007
6 June 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MID-MICHIGAN COMMUNITY FD 0000154 - 2019
24 June 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 May 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MIDLAND 17
16 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MIDLAND 10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Midland 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
Porter	6.5 miles	13
Redstone	6.6 miles	12
Oil City	7.0 miles	15
Saint Elmo	8.1 miles	13
Teeterville	9.2 miles	12
Floyd	11.0 miles	13
Olson	11.6 miles	13
Ryan	11.9 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 635119. 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.