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Mount Pleasant, New York

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mount Pleasant town. It lies in ZIP code area 10532. It lies near Buttermilk Hill. The Survey maps it on the White Plains quadrangle. 44,436 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Mount Pleasant within Westchester County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mount Pleasant, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Mount Pleasant, surveyed 1892

Population over time

2 figures

Mount Pleasant grew from 43,724 to 44,436 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201043,724
202044,436+712 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 39 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

829 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 829 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 2000 and 2020, burning about 726 acres in total. 93 started naturally. 46 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined445
Natural93
Smoking76
Recreation and ceremony68
Arson/incendiarism46
Debris and open burning39
Equipment and vehicle use28
Power generation/transmission/distribution23
Misuse of fire by a minor11

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
9 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant: 6 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Granite, Silver. 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
Sing Sing Ag MineLead, Silver, Iron, CopperPast Producer
Sing Sing Silver MineLead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast ProducerChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver
Sparta Copper DepositCopper, LeadOccurrence
(Facility) Chester Metals Division RefinerySilverPlant
Lake Street Granite MineGraniteProducer
Lake Street Granite QuarryGranitePast ProducerGranite
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Ackerman's Limonite MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Westchester 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
Hawthorne0.8 miles39
Valhalla1.8 miles39
Knollwood Manor1.9 miles39
Thornwood2.0 miles39
Graham2.1 miles39
Eastview2.2 miles39
Pocantico Hills2.3 miles39
Sherman Park2.3 miles40

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Mount PleasantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1018321The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 957874. 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.