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Pleasant Hill, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Berne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43130. The Survey maps it on the Lancaster quadrangle.

Pleasant Hill within Fairfield County

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 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 Hill, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Pleasant Hill, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 1901 county history

2,331 words on this township

The county history of 1901 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Berne Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Berne Township - 2,331 words.

Fires nearby

17 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 2003 and 2020, burning about 80 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking1
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
22 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15676
20 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7937
1 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15468
9 March 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7326
25 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesBERNE TWP.
28 February 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,492 shown

Museums hold 2,492 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1839 and 1975: 1,827 Animalia, 395 Fungi, 256 Plantae, 7 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Schrader, Angerman, C. (Carl) & Triplehorn, C. A. (Charles A.), Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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.

All 2,492 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Alley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Blazer Plant A-1 & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Brewer Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Febus Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Morris Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Morris Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stump Hollow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Fairfield 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
North Berne2.4 miles13
Horns Mill2.6 miles13
Swartz Mill2.8 miles13
Blue Valley Acres3.4 miles13
Sandstone (historical)3.5 miles13
Sugar Grove3.8 miles13
Geneva4.0 miles13
Colfax4.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049092. 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.