Pleasant Grove, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pleasant Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55976. The Survey maps it on the Stewartville quadrangle.
On record in Pleasant Grove
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Pleasant Grove Masonic Lodgelisted 1980 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Stewartville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Stewartville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 2001 and 2009, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 July 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 April 2009 | Smoking | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove: 9 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chester Pit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Welch Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Allen Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Baker A Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Baker B Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Baker Mine | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Bernard Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| D O Dar<Tello | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Finley Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Krueger Mine | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Grove in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 5 hail, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | $50,000 | An open air farm outbuilding was destroyed and a quarter of the roof was removed from a barn east of Stewartville. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | $2,000 | Trees were snapped off in Pleasant Grove. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | $750 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Pleasant Grove | - | Quarter sized hail fell east of Stewartville. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | - | An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred east of Stewartville. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Pleasant Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Pleasant Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Pleasant Grove | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Pleasant Grove | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simpson | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Judge | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Marion | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Stewartville | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Predmore | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Cummingsville | 6.7 miles | 9 | |
| High Forest | 8.9 miles | 8 | |
| Golden Hill | 9.3 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 649549. 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.





