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Pleasant Valley, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Earth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79347. The Survey maps it on the Lazbuddie SE quadrangle.

Pleasant Valley within Lamb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley between 2008 and 2020, burning about 2,016 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOPEN GRASS
11 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 99 GRASS FIRE
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUNIZ GRASS FIRE
29 June 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAMB CTY ASST
10 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011045
9 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service303 RIGHT OF WAY
2 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Lamb 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
Earth9.1 miles9
Springlake14.3 miles9
Sudan16.0 miles9
Circle18.8 miles9
Amherst21.3 miles9
Friendship21.5 miles7
Cofferville23.4 miles9
Beck23.6 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380380. 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.