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Mount Pleasant, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Mount Pleasant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75455. The Survey maps it on the Mount Pleasant quadrangle. 16,047 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 404 feet above sea level.

Mount Pleasant within Titus County

Population over time

2 figures

Mount Pleasant grew from 15,564 to 16,047 between 2010 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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
201015,564
202016,047+483 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 printed 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 near this place

328 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 328 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 1992 and 2019, burning about 802 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning248
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use20
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
9 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-937
8 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-805
7 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-933
6 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-925
6 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-905
4 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-907

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Titus County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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: Sulfur. 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
Mt Pleasant Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Titus County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Pleasant in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
October 1995Thunderstorm WindMount Pleasant$20,000A tree was blown down onto two cars, crushing them.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindMount Pleasant-Large tree limbs were blown down by high winds.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindMount Pleasant-Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 1994HailMount Pleasant-Trees were uprooted by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Titus 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
Farmers Academy3.0 miles8
Old Union3.6 miles10
White Oak Springs5.5 miles8
Liberty Hill6.0 miles10
Gladewater6.2 miles10
Cookville6.4 miles9
Green Hill6.5 miles10
West Midway6.8 miles8

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 Mount PleasantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q125934The 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 1342094. 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.

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.