BlockPleasant Valley, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 10. It lies in ZIP code area 68739. The Survey maps it on the Hartington SW quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Hartington SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Yankton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley between 2008 and 2015, burning about 114 acres 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 | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 July 2012 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 June 2012 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Constance | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Fordyce | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Hartington | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| Magnet | 11.1 miles | 9 | |
| Bow Valley | 11.7 miles | 9 | |
| Menominee | 12.3 miles | 10 | |
| Coleridge | 13.9 miles | 9 | |
| Aten | 15.7 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 835416. 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.