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Pleasantville, Wisconsin

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hale town. It lies in ZIP code area 54773. It stands on North Branch Elk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pleasantville quadrangle. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Pleasantville within Trempealeau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Pleasantville between 1994 and 2019, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
10 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources5071928
21 April 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trempealeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Pleasantville: 15 past producers, 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Aloysie Halama Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Bautch Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
D Lyngen Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
A Schroeder Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
C Koepke Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dubiel Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
E Brixen Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
E Hernian Shale DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Ellen Herman Shale DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Hale Shale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Trempealeau County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasantville in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPleasantville$45,000Several trees were reported blown down onto power lines.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindPleasantville$5,000A large tree was blown down onto a barn east of Elk Creek.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindPleasantville$3,000Shed roof blown off and lying in roadway.
June 2004HailPleasantville$1,500no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindPleasantville-An estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred along with marble sized hail north of Whitehall.

Every storm recorded in Trempealeau 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
Hale2.4 miles12
Coral City5.3 miles12
Pigeon Falls5.3 miles13
Elk Creek5.3 miles12
Whitehall6.0 miles12
Strum8.1 miles12
Independence9.1 miles12
Osseo9.2 miles12

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 PleasantvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7204152The 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 1571678. 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.