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Pleasant Grove, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Laneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75654. The Survey maps it on the Gum Springs quadrangle.

Pleasant Grove within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

190 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,006 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 4 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 burning105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism4

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
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use14 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 527
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2014Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4608 FIRE
4 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2274 N
30 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6231
29 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND FIRE
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6228

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Grove in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 3 hail, 3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2008Tornado (EF1)Pleasant Grove$200,000An EF1 tornado with winds of 105 to 110 mph occurred in Rusk County from 930 am to 940 am CDT on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008. The tornado touched down approximately 500 yards west of County Road 1798 where a manufactured home was completely destroyed. The hope appears to have been destroyed when the winds swept under the home...lifted it off its foundation and slammed it into the ground thereby causing the entire structure to fail. The winds then scattered the debris and home contents up to three miles northeast of the home. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted along County Road 4183. A large barn was collapsed on the west side of County Road 4182 and a shed was destroyed by a fallen tree on the east side of County Road 4182. The tornado then crossed FM 839 snapping trees and knocking down power lines. Trees were snapped and uprooted along County Road 461 including one tree that fell on an outbuilding causing severe damage. The tornado lifted several hundred yards east of County Road 461.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove-A roof was removed from an outbuilding, and one exterior wall was blown out of another outbuilding near the intersection of FM Road 1798 and FM Road 839.
February 2013Tornado (EF0)Pleasant Grove-The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey in Rusk County, Texas and determined that a weak EF0 tornado touched down east of New Summerfield, Texas. Damage consisted of several trees uprooted and large branches snapped along FM 1798 and FM 839 near Cat Creek.
December 2009Tornado (EF0)Pleasant Grove-Several trees were uprooted and snapped along CR 4188.
May 2007HailPleasant Grove-no account filed
January 1997HailPleasant Grove-no account filed
January 1994HailPleasant Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
McKnight2.9 miles13
Big Springs3.2 miles13
Good Springs3.4 miles13
Pone3.9 miles13
Gum Springs4.4 miles13
New Salem5.5 miles11
Freeneytown6.7 miles11
Hickey6.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378880. 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.

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.