Pleasant Grove, Missouri

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.

• 1888 USGS Boonville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1952 USGS Prairie Home quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:100000

A History of Cooper County, Missouri, from the First Visit by White Men in February, 1804, to the Fifth Day of July, 1876, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 1994 and 2020, burning about 121 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Clarks Fork
• Overton
• Wooldridge
• Windsor Place
• Prairie Home
• Billingsville

Every fire recorded in Cooper County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove: 9 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, 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.

Every working recorded in Cooper County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741159. 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.