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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Mount Pleasant, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Swan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43138. The Survey maps it on the New Plymouth quadrangle.

Mount Pleasant within Vinton County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 98 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 2002
Topographic sheet of Mount Pleasant, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

4 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 2014 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 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 use1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
18 July 2020Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15791
19 April 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources945
21 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 October 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15849

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 332 shown

Museums hold 332 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Pleasant between 1900 and 1975: 232 Animalia, 68 Fungi, 32 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Arden R. Gaufin, C F WALKER AND F B CHAPMAN 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
Hemitaxonus Ashmead, 18981900not recordedVinton Co., OH, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Pamphilius Latreille, not of this specimenPamphilius Latreille, 18021900not recordedVinton Co., OH, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Phyllachora junci, not of this specimenPhyllachora junci (Alb. & Schwein.) Fuckel1901W. A. K.; Kern E. H.New Plymouth
A photograph of the species Puccinia helianthi, not of this specimenPuccinia helianthi Schwein.1901W. A. KellermanNew Plymouth
A photograph of the species Puccinia podophylli, not of this specimenPuccinia podophylli Schwein.1901W. A. KellermanNew Plymouth
A photograph of the species Robinia hispida, not of this specimenRobinia hispida L.1912Crawford, C.G.southern Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek tributary, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Cottus bairdii, not of this specimenCottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 18501928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus meleagris Agassiz, 18541928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek tributary, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township

All 332 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Orland1.9 miles15
Hue2.6 miles15
New Plymouth3.3 miles15
Siverly3.8 miles15
Creola5.4 miles15
Stella5.9 miles16
Elk Fork7.6 miles15
Goosetown (historical)8.0 miles16

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 Q22134010The 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 1076456. 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.