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Pleasant Home, Oregon

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Gresham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97080. The Survey maps it on the Sandy quadrangle. It stands 587 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Home within Multnomah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Home between 1992 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 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 burning14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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 2006Other causesunder an acreMolalla UnitCHICKEN COOP
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMolalla UnitBLUFF CAR FIRE
27 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreMolalla UnitSKOGAN RD #1
22 September 1994Smoking1.0 acresMolalla UnitTUCKER RD
20 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLE ANN FIRE
2 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMolalla UnitCOLORADO
14 September 1998Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMolalla UnitNAMANU FIRE
12 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMolalla UnitGREEN MT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Multnomah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Home: 11 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Camp Collins YmcaGeothermalProducer
Midvale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Columbia Brick WorksClayPast Producer
Columbia Brick WorksClayProducer
Midvale QuarryStonePast Producer
Oregon State Hwy Div 2Clay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Columbia ContinentalSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Multnomah County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Home in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2017Heavy RainPleasant Home-Multnomah County Sheriff's Office reported flooding and a sinkhole near the 31700 block of SE Pipeline Rd.

Every storm recorded in Multnomah 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
Orient0.9 miles26
Powell Valley3.4 miles25
Springdale3.8 miles24
Corbett5.3 miles24
Gresham5.6 miles25
Troutdale5.9 miles24
Twelvemile Corner6.4 miles24
Wood Village6.5 miles24

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.

Wikidata item Q122432441The 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 1136632. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.