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Pleasant Valley, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Franklin No. 2 Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65803. The Survey maps it on the Ebenezer quadrangle.

Pleasant Valley within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 586 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230727-03905-09272020-1350
12 September 2020Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230669-03905-09122020-1710
10 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 August 1997Smoking46 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 August 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230760-03905-08252020-1510
21 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley: 12 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, 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
UnknownLead, ZincPast Producer
Doling Park QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Edwards QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Holman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tindell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greene 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
Avalon Park2.3 miles20
Roseville2.3 miles20
Mascot2.4 miles20
Glidewell2.5 miles20
Valley Water Mills2.8 miles23
Ebenezer3.3 miles20
Hickory Barren4.8 miles23
Springfield5.6 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 737883. 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.