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Pleasant Hill, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pleasant Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97455. It lies near Sellers Butte. The Survey maps it on the Jasper quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Hill within Lane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 251 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use26
Debris and open burning16
Recreation and ceremony14
Smoking8
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural2

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 2002Smokingunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFHILLS CREEK
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined34 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersENTERPRISE ROAD
3 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersKIMBALL ROAD FIRE
3 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresEast Lane Unit - ODFARBORETUM FIRE
29 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFJASPER LOWELL ROAD
25 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFHILLS MP2
2 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHOLIDAY
19 September 2000Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFHORSE ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill: 13 past producers, 13 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Nickel. 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
O & C LandNickelUnknown
O&C LandsNickelOccurrence
Snyder Ranch ArsenicArsenicOccurrenceRealgar
Snyder Ranch ArsenicArsenicOccurrence
D K MitchellStonePast Producer
D.K. Mitchell PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hills SidingStonePast Producer
Hills SidingStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Olga KordonStonePast Producer
Olga KordonStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lane 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
Jasper2.5 miles14
Cloverdale3.4 miles14
Trent4.1 miles14
Goshen4.7 miles14
Fall Creek5.9 miles14
Creswell5.9 miles14
Thurston6.1 miles16
Dexter6.7 miles14

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 Pleasant HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474042The 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 1125471. 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.