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Mount Pleasant, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mount Pleasant-Moroni census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84647. It stands on North Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Pleasant quadrangle. 3,655 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,925 feet above sea level.

Mount Pleasant within Sanpete County

On record in Mount Pleasant

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 records

Population over time

2 figures

Mount Pleasant grew from 3,260 to 3,655 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20103,260
20203,655+395 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2022

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The Mount Pleasant Monument honors the town's pioneers of the late 1850s in the small central-Utah city (population c. 3,500) of Mt. Pleasant
The Mount Pleasant Monument honors the town's pioneers of the late 1850s in the small central-Utah city (population c. 3,500) of Mt. Pleasant
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 1992 and 2020, burning about 882 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined24
Natural14
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSKYLINE MTN
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSCRAP
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPIG FIRE
4 September 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSP FIRE
4 September 2006Recreation and ceremony515 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBLUE HILLS
4 September 2001Natural75 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSCRUB
26 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral AreaMOUNTAINVILLE
26 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Landsnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Round Hills Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20007Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20008Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20009Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20010Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20011Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20025Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sanpete 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
Spring City4.9 miles16
Fairview5.5 miles16
Moroni7.3 miles18
Chester7.5 miles16
Oak Creek8.9 miles16
Pigeon Hollow Junction10.2 miles16
Freedom10.3 miles19
Wales10.4 miles16

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 Mount PleasantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482399The 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 1430522. 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.