BlockMount Pleasant, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Merkel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79536. The Survey maps it on the Merkel East quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Buffalo Gap quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Merkel East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
82 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4,353 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRACTOR FIRE |
| 6 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 354 FIRE |
| 28 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 270 MM FIRE |
| 25 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | I 20 GRASS FIRE |
| 17 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WIMBERLY RD |
| 1 September 2020 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 7 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NEIL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whites Mines Buzzard Mtn View Qy | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378709. 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.
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.