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Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Mount Pleasant Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53406. The Survey maps it on the Racine South quadrangle. 27,732 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 715 feet above sea level.

Mount Pleasant within Racine County

Population over time

2 figures

Mount Pleasant grew from 26,197 to 27,732 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
201026,197
202027,732+1,535 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

In the county-history sources

9,624 words on this township

The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Mount Pleasant Village. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

C. D. E. ELLiARSOlV, farmer, Section 19 ; P. O. Racine ; born Schoharie Co., N. Y., Oct 11, 1817 ; came to Kenosha Co. about 1845, and to Mount Pleasant July, 1845 ; settled on 124| acres. Married, July, 1847, Tharia De Silver, who died in 1860; married Mary A. Clark in 1861 ; have three children living by first wife, and by second, two - Katie, 17 years old, and Ralph J., 7 years. Mr. Ellar son was Treasurer of Town of Mount Pleasant two terms, and enrolled the town at time of war. Charles S. is now studying medicine.

Passage source: The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879.

CONRAD FOX, farmer, Sec. 6 ; P. O. Racine; born in Baden Jan. 8, 1832; emigrated to New York in May, 1850; to Mount Pleasant April 8, 1857; owns eighty-five acres of land under good cultivation. Married Bridget McCarthy Jan. 8, 1856 ; hav^ had five children ; now engaged in the stone and lime business ; was Treasurer of School District No. 18 two terms. Mr. Fox is a member of Lutheran, wife member of Catholic Church.

Passage source: The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879.

EDjHOND king, farmer, Sec. 31 ; P. 0. Racine; born in Canada, May, 1820 ; came to Racine County in 1844 ; thence went to Kane County, 111., and came back to Mount Pleasant in 1869 ; settled ou forty acres of land, which he has under good cultivation ; raises many berries and much fruit lor the Chicago market ; married Mary A. Rice, of Pennsylvania, June, 1849 ; have had four children, three living ; Mr. King has been Clerk of the School Board a number of terms ; Mrs. King is a member of the Baptist Church.

Passage source: The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin .., published 1879.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Mount Pleasant Village - it names this place 9 more 9 times.

Fires near this place

32 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 2018 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning5
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources203640
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources184317
15 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources184175
7 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources183671
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources182533
10 July 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1806005
9 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20317
6 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources202165

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Racine County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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
Rochester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Racine 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
Waxdale1.2 miles16
Elmwood Park1.8 miles15
Sturtevant2.1 miles16
Racine4.3 miles15
Franksville5.3 miles17
Oakdale Estates5.4 miles16
Sylvania5.4 miles16
Ives5.7 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 Q3345885The 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 2012620. 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.