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Pleasant Point, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Alvarado census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76009. It lies near Poverty Knob. The Survey maps it on the Alvarado quadrangle.

Pleasant Point within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

143 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Point between 2005 and 2011, burning about 598 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Debris and open burning62
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2011Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMANSFIELD FIRE
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Debris and open burning13 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service09-000365

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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
Lillian1.5 miles16
The Homesteads2.0 miles16
Happy Hill2.4 miles16
Wooded Hills4.6 miles14
Alvarado5.5 miles16
Briaroaks5.8 miles14
Egan5.9 miles16
Venus6.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378886. 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.