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Pleasant Valley, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Amarillo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79108. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Valley quadrangle. It stands 3,510 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Valley within Potter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

359 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 359 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley between 2000 and 2020, burning about 74,574 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined211
Equipment and vehicle use64
Power generation/transmission/distribution22
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism17
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service400 W CHERRY
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITH
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKINIE
2 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-12720
18 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-13505
18 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-13519
18 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-13513
17 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOWENS CORNING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Potter County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley: 2 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Asarco Zinc SmelterZincPlant
Armarillo Plant & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Southwestern Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Potter 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
Amarillo2.5 miles8
Dumas Junction3.5 miles8
Juilliard4.3 miles11
Mayer4.9 miles8
Cliffside5.4 miles11
Bishop Hills6.3 miles11
Folsom6.8 miles8
Gluck7.5 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Pleasant ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076559The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1365449. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.