BlockPleasant Valley, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Caddo Mills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75135. The Survey maps it on the Josephine quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1930 USGS Farmersville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Josephine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS McKinney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
187 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley between 2005 and 2019, burning about 2,267 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 99 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 62 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 697 & COUNTY LINE |
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011073 |
| 8 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 19000 CR 656 - 11076624 |
| 30 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 27 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 6 |
| 23 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011119 |
| 22 September 2011 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 2712 & CR 2706 |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378888. 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.