Pleasant Grove, Texas

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.

• 1885 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000
• 1904 USGS Bastrop quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1982 USGS Structure quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Austin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove (historical) between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,041 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Butler
• Elgin

Every fire recorded in Bastrop County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove (historical): 9 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Bastrop County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034638. 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.