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Photograph of Mount Pleasant Historic District
Photograph by Bwsmith84, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mount Pleasant Historic District

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1974 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Fires near this property

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant Historic District between 2003 and 2020, burning about 85 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
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
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources443
10 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

5 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Friends Meetinghouse0.2 miles1970
Benjamin Lundy House0.3 miles1974
Ann E. Lewis Bernhard House4.9 miles2005
Hamilton-Ickes House5.2 miles1980
Stringer Stone House5.9 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74001536 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 24 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.