BlockPleasant Grove, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mullin-Priddy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76844. It stands on Nesbitt Branch. The Survey maps it on the Antelope Gap quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1887 USGS Lampasas quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Lampasas quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Antelope Gap quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Star quadrangle1:62500
- 1985 USGS San Saba quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 2006 and 2019, burning about 233 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2011 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | W. HEAD ESTATE |
| 26 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1557 CR 2664 |
| 6 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CLARY |
| 1 January 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scallorn | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Castor | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Antelope Gap (historical) | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Center City | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| Star | 8.8 miles | 13 | |
| Goldthwaite | 9.2 miles | 14 | |
| Double Ford | 10.7 miles | 15 | |
| Durenville | 11.5 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380373. 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.