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Pleasant Ridge, Wisconsin

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dodgeville town. It lies in ZIP code area 53533. It stands on Pleasant Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Ridge quadrangle. It stands 1,247 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Ridge within Iowa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Ridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 137 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning40
Equipment and vehicle use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFAR LOOK FIRE
7 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iowa 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 Pleasant Ridge: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc. 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
Demby Weist MineLead, ZincUnknownGalena

Every working recorded in Iowa County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Ridge in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023HailPleasant Ridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iowa 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
Hyde5.0 miles15
Wyoming5.3 miles11
Ridgeway5.7 miles15
Dodgeville7.2 miles14
Coon Rock8.0 miles15
Helena8.5 miles11
Clyde8.6 miles11
Barneveld9.8 miles15

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 RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7203935The 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 1577773. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.