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Pleasant Hill, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Nacogdoches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75965. It stands on Rider Branch. The Survey maps it on the Trawick quadrangle.

Pleasant Hill within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,263 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 12 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 burning78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks2
Smoking2

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 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 529
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 489
6 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 516
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNACOGDOCHES 17:34
4 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON-7121
29 September 2010Arson/incendiarism25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 112

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches 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
North Redland3.0 miles12
Mahl3.5 miles12
Holly Springs3.6 miles11
Caro3.7 miles11
Appleby4.6 miles12
Linn Flat4.8 miles11
Central Heights5.3 miles12
Trawick5.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034725. 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.