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Pleasant Hill, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Dunkirk town. It lies in ZIP code area 53589. The Survey maps it on the Stoughton quadrangle.

Pleasant Hill within Dane County

On record in Pleasant Hill

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 within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 20 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 August 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources321998
13 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources190
8 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBADFISH
8 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources101
5 April 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources98
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources136
27 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources125
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources113

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dane County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Halverson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Fosdahl PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hawkinson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dane 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
Stoughton1.3 miles19
Rolling Acres1.6 miles19
Riverwood Estates1.8 miles19
Oak Knoll2.2 miles19
Petty Acres2.4 miles19
Dunkirk2.9 miles19
Bayview Heights3.6 miles19
Stone4.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1842619. 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.