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.
Population over time
2 figuresMount 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 26,197 | |
| 2020 | 27,732 | +1,535 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Racine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1905 USGS Racine quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Racine South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Racine quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Racine quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
9,624 words on this townshipThe 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 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 203640 |
| 23 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 184317 |
| 15 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 184175 |
| 7 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 183671 |
| 5 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 182533 |
| 10 July 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1806005 |
| 9 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20317 |
| 6 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 202165 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rochester Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waxdale | 1.2 miles | 16 | |
| Elmwood Park | 1.8 miles | 15 | |
| Sturtevant | 2.1 miles | 16 | |
| Racine | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Franksville | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Oakdale Estates | 5.4 miles | 16 | |
| Sylvania | 5.4 miles | 16 | |
| Ives | 5.7 miles | 16 |
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 Pleasant | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3345885 | The 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.






