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Pleasanton, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Alexander Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45701. The Survey maps it on the Shade quadrangle.

Pleasanton within Athens County

Then and now

1907 to 1992

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 Pleasanton, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Pleasanton, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

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.

Fires nearby

12 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Pleasanton between 2007 and 2020, burning about 19 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15783
9 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.7 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources531

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,125 shown

Museums hold 1,125 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pleasanton between 1831 and 1975: 945 Animalia, 134 Plantae, 37 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, Auburn E. Brower 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 Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1896F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 18131896F. L. StevensAthens County
Specimen of Ambrosia bidentata Michx.Ambrosia bidentata Michx.1969William G. Gambill Jr.
A photograph of the species Myosotis laxa, not of this specimenMyosotis laxa Lehm.1831C. H. JonesOrange Twp.
A photograph of the species Tridens flavus, not of this specimenTridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.1896Selby, A.D.Caananville
A photograph of the species Aristida longespica, not of this specimenAristida longespica var. longespica1898Selby, A.D.Pleasanton
A photograph of the species Perlesta Banks, not of this specimenPerlesta Banks, 19061898N. Roberts
A photograph of the species Quercus minor, not of this specimenQuercus minor (Marshall) Sarg.1898Selby, A.D.Pleasanton
A photograph of the species Diospyros virginiana, not of this specimenDiospyros virginiana L.1899A. D. SelbyMarshfield
A photograph of the species Salix humilis, not of this specimenSalix humilis var. tristis (Aiton) Griggs1899Selby, A.D.Marshfield
A photograph of the species Tephrosia virginiana, not of this specimenTephrosia virginiana (L.) Pers.1899Selby, A.D.Marshfield
A photograph of the species Elaphe obsoleta, not of this specimenElaphe obsoleta obsoleta1902Morse, M. (Max)Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio

All 1,125 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pleasanton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Number 2 QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Athens County

Storms nearby

4 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Pleasanton in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2019Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$1,000One apple tree and a section of a fence were blown over.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPleasanton$1,000Trees were blown down along Pleasant Hill Road.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Several trees were blown down south of Athens. Power lines that fell in accompaniment led to power outages in the area.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPleasanton-Trees were uprooted in a yard.

Every storm recorded in Athens 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
Chase2.4 miles13
Shade3.1 miles13
Valley View3.6 miles21
Pine Grove Heights3.7 miles18
Fisher3.8 miles18
University Heights3.9 miles18
Lysander4.0 miles21
Clearview4.0 miles21

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 PleasantonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18389000The 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 1061557. 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.

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.