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Pleasant Grove, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Colerain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43901. It stands on Grays Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Dillonvale quadrangle.

Pleasant Grove within Belmont County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pleasant Grove, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Pleasant Grove, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

In the county-history sources

5,147 words on this township

Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Colerain Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

There are 10 sub-school districts in the township, with T. C. Mercer of Pleasant Grove as president, and the sub-directors are : R. M. Simpson, Charles Dungan, George Ashton, Oliver Watkins, Alexander Riddle, Charles Seabright, James Mowry, E. N. Boggs and Alfred Mead.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

But not all the early settlers in Colerain were Friends. A large number of Scotch-Irish were among the first immigrants and the industry and thrift of these intelligent people contributed much to the development of the township. Of these families we might mention the Bartons, Majors, Wells and Wrights.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

Barton is a village of a few hundred inhabitants on the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway, near the junction of the St. Clairsville branch. It sustains a school, two churches and post office. One of the churches is a branch of the Methodist Protestant with Rev. B. L. Murphy as pastor. The other as elsewhere stated is a Catholic Church, conducted by Rev. Mr. Weigand of Bridgeport. The school, which is largely attended, is conducted by Wilson Dungan assisted by Olive Mitchell. The population is largely mining and the new mines now being opened at Barton by the Osborn people will employ 800 men when they are in full operation. The tipple will he located up the Run about half a mile from the station and special tracks will have to be run to it. This will increase the population of Barton very greatly. The Maple Hill mines have already given contracts for 35 new houses for the use of the men and many more will be built in the near future.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Colerain Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.

Fires near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 2003 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources9667
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12065
27 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 February 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12045
22 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15424
21 February 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7587
12 November 2010Debris and open burning20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 October 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 507 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 507 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pleasant Grove between 1800 and 1975: 425 Plantae, 65 Animalia, 16 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.J. Sharp, ALBERT P BLAIR, Abbott, R 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 unnamed1972W. T. Johnson
Specimen of Dysodia oculatana Clemens, 1860Dysodia oculatana Clemens, 18601975not recorded
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1800Guttenberg, G.near Wheeling
A photograph of the species Robinia L., not of this specimenRobinia L.1829Guttenberg, G.Wheeling
A photograph of the species Geum canadense, not of this specimenGeum canadense Jacq.1870Mertz, H.N.Wheeling Hills near Mahum Creek
A photograph of the species Toxicodendron radicans, not of this specimenToxicodendron radicans subsp. negundo (Greene) Gillis1870Mertz, W.N.Wheeling
A photograph of the species Viola arvensis, not of this specimenViola arvensis Murray1870Guttenberg, H.G.Near Wheeling
A photograph of the species Sphenopholis obtusata, not of this specimenSphenopholis obtusata (Michx.) Scribn.1872E. S. MillerWheeling.
A photograph of the species Acer dasycarpum, not of this specimenAcer dasycarpum Ehrh.1876Mertz, H.N.Wheeling
A photograph of the species Diplazium pycnocarpon, not of this specimenDiplazium pycnocarpon (Spreng.) M.Broun1876Guttenberg, G.near Wheeling
A photograph of the species Dryopteris goldiana, not of this specimenDryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray1876H. N. Mertz
A photograph of the species Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, not of this specimenPseudognaphalium obtusifolium (L.) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt1876Mertz, H.N.Wheeling

All 507 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

2 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Grove in 2 storm reports between 2025 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
June 2025Flash FloodPleasant Grove$5,000Member of the public shared photo on social media of debris and water flowing over a road.
May 2025HailPleasant Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Belmont 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
Crescent2.3 miles18
Colerain2.5 miles17
Morningview2.7 miles17
Maynard2.7 miles17
Barton3.0 miles18
Farmington3.1 miles18
Blainesville3.1 miles17
Wheeling Valley (historical)3.2 miles17

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 GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134126The 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 1065535. 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.

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.