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Pleasant Hill, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Rose Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98626. It stands on Sandy Bend Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kelso quadrangle. It stands 112 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Hill within Cowlitz County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

164 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 194 acres in total. 5 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 burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Recreation and ceremony25
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Fireworks7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural5
Smoking5
Other causes4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters700
4 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 1992Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cowlitz County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill: 15 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Stone. 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
Ash QuarryStonePast Producer
Grady QuarryStonePast Producer
LongviewAluminumOccurrence
Ostrander CreekAluminumPast Producer
Section 4AluminumOccurrence
Cms Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Corman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ostrander PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cowlitz River BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cowlitz 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
Sandy Bend1.5 miles11
Ostrander2.3 miles11
Lexington2.7 miles11
Castle Rock3.5 miles11
Beacon Hill3.8 miles11
Rocky Point3.8 miles11
Longview Heights4.6 miles11
Columbia Heights4.9 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 HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17184061The 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 1512568. 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.