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Mount Pleasant, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bellevue City. It lies in ZIP code area 44811. The Survey maps it on the Bellevue quadrangle.

Mount Pleasant within Sandusky County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 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 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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 nearby

1 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 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
Arson/incendiarism1

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
27 April 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandusky County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 187 shown

Museums hold 187 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Pleasant between 1896 and 1975: 134 Animalia, 45 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Albiet, P. & Stone Lab Limnology Class, Berra, T. M. (Tim M.) & Class and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Alternaria crassa (Sacc.) RandsAlternaria crassa (Sacc.) Rands1915L.R. JonesClyde
Specimen of Athyrium angustum (Willd.) C.PreslAthyrium angustum (Willd.) C.Presl1969Jones, G.T.Damp deciduous woods after flood Townsend Twp., east od Whitmore.
A photograph of the species Vicia hirsuta, not of this specimenVicia hirsuta (L.) Gray1896Selby, A.D.Clyde
A photograph of the species Alyssum alyssoides, not of this specimenAlyssum alyssoides (L.) L.1898A. D. Selby
A photograph of the species Coryneum beijerinckii, not of this specimenCoryneum beijerinckii Oudem.1898Persing H. L.Clyde
A photograph of the species Cylindrosporium padi, not of this specimenCylindrosporium padi P.Karst.1905Hassenplug C. R.Bellevue
A photograph of the species Coniothyrium fuckelii, not of this specimenConiothyrium fuckelii Sacc.1908Wilbert E. C.Clyde
A photograph of the species Elsinoe veneta, not of this specimenElsinoe veneta (Burkh.) Jenkins1908Wilbert E. C.Clyde
A photograph of the species Taxonus rufocinctus, not of this specimenTaxonus rufocinctus1912not recorded
A photograph of the species Campanula americana, not of this specimenCampanula americana Mill., 17681918Mareley, E.P.County line w/Castalia
A photograph of the species Culaea inconstans, not of this specimenCulaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Little Pickerel Creek, within Spring Brook Run in Ex north Townsend township, near Vickery, Townsend township
A photograph of the species Lepomis cyanellus, not of this specimenLepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Little Pickerel Creek, within Spring Brook Run in Ex north Townsend township, near Vickery, Townsend township

All 187 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, 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
Bellevue QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Bellevue QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bellevue QuarryLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kline Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Kline Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sandusky 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
Wales Corners3.4 miles16
Mount Carmel4.1 miles16
Colby4.7 miles16
York5.8 miles16
Clyde6.4 miles16
Shady Acres6.5 miles16
Galetown7.3 miles16
Whitmore7.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067209. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.