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Pleasant Grove, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43701. The Survey maps it on the Zanesville East quadrangle. 1,726 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Grove within Muskingum County

Population over time

3 figures

Pleasant Grove fell from 2,016 to 1,726 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20002,016
20101,742-274 (-14%)
20201,726-16 (-1%)

Then and now

1910 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 84 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 1994
Topographic sheet of Pleasant Grove, surveyed 1910

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

63 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 2002 and 2020, burning about 73 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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
30 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15277
30 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15278
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15264
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15772
10 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15753
10 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15750
10 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15756
8 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 903 shown

Museums hold 903 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pleasant Grove between 1873 and 1975: 740 Animalia, 138 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W. M. 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 Scleroderris rubra MorganScleroderris rubra Morgan1891Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza nana Massee & MorganPeziza nana Massee & Morgan1895Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Frullania saxicola AustinFrullania saxicola Austin1896William C. Werner
A photograph of the species Poa cuspidata, not of this specimenPoa cuspidata Nutt.1873W. M. CanbyZanesville.
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Lehm.1890W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella pinnata, not of this specimenPorella pinnata L.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Lycogala exiguum, not of this specimenLycogala exiguum Morgan, 18931893Morgan A.P.Preston
Specimen of Lachnum viridulum Massee & MorganLachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza morganii MasseePeziza morganii Massee1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston (The no longer extant town of Preston, Ohio, was located in Hamilton County in the Miami River drainage).
Tapesia derelicta Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
A photograph of the species Gyromitra brunnea, not of this specimenGyromitra brunnea Underw.1909Moore S. R.Zanesville

All 903 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove: 6 producers, 3 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Armco Inc/ Zanesville, OhioIronProducer
Baker Sand Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Granite Plant PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Muskingum R. Gravel Plant No 3 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plant Number 3 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Plant Number 4 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Salt Creek Materials Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Seville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Seville Road Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Muskingum 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
Eastlynd Acres0.7 miles15
Wortley1.1 miles15
Oakland (historical)1.3 miles15
Jackson (historical)1.4 miles15
Mill Run2.0 miles15
Forest Hills2.1 miles15
Riverview2.2 miles15
Tile2.3 miles15

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 Q2132036The 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 1049090. 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.