Pleasant Grove, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rosebud census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76570. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Springs quadrangle.

Pleasant Grove within Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

36 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 2005 and 2018, burning about 766 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	1

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
6 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2014-117
27 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2014-129
20 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
10 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2014-120
8 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2012-121
7 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011-095
6 August 2014	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2014-108

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wilderville	2.1 miles	7
Cedar Springs	3.4 miles	7
Highbank	4.6 miles	7
Coymack	4.7 miles	7
Eloise	5.1 miles	7
Travis	5.3 miles	13
Rosebud	5.6 miles	7
Beacon	6.1 miles	7

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 Pleasant Grove	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7203797	The 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 1380372. 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.