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Pleasant Grove, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Russell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65786. It sits by Nettles Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Hahatonka quadrangle.

Pleasant Grove within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

241 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,020 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 113 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
Arson/incendiarism113
Debris and open burning93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
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
6 September 1999Debris and open burning73 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use56 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 September 2019Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179145-01506-09132019-1647
22 July 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 July 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 July 2020Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservation220615-01506-07102020-1710
30 June 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc. 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
Unknown - ZincZincPast Producer
Beavers Rock QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Scott QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Camden County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Grove in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 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
June 2011HailPleasant Grove-Hail to the size of quarters was reported at the intersection of Highways 54 and J.

Every storm recorded in Camden 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
Green Gables (historical)0.2 miles17
White City1.7 miles17
Rodger Ford (historical)2.4 miles17
Roach3.8 miles17
Only4.5 miles16
Macks Creek5.2 miles16
Hahatonka5.9 miles17
Neongwah7.3 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 737882. 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.