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History · Pleasant Groves

Pleasant Groves was first counted by the census in 2000

Most of Pleasant Groves was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1977. Below: maps from 1936 on and the census since 2000.

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Quick answers

How Pleasant Groves began

When was Pleasant Groves founded?

2000

Pleasant Groves first appears in the census in 2000.

First census: 447 in 20002020 census: 42626 years
Founding year: the first census.

What stands out about Pleasant Groves’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Pleasant Groves are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pleasant Groves’s history is told.

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The story so far

Pleasant Groves, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Pleasant Groves yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Pleasant Groves is a town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated on February 17, 1993. As of the 2020 census, Pleasant Groves had a population of 426.

Its first post office opened in 2000. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 420 in 2010, 426 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Pleasant Groves, decade by decade

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On the map

Pleasant Groves on the map, 1936 to 1973

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Pleasant Groves. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Pleasant Groves on the 1936 USGS mapPleasant Groves on the 1950 USGS mapPleasant Groves on the 1973 USGS map1936Lim Rock sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Pleasant Groves.

People over time

Pleasant Groves, census by census

010020030040050020002020Peak: 447

Between 420 and 447 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Pleasant Groves’ Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Pleasant Groves

Nobody well known was born in Pleasant Groves itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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John Allen ChauAmerican missionary · b. 1991
Kira Lewis Jr.American basketball player · b. 2001
Lucille BensonActress · b. 1914
Joe StarnesAmerican politician · b. 1895
Robert E. Jones, Jr.American politician · b. 1912
Jeremy PruittAmerican football coach · b. 1974
Places that used to be

Places now gone

Gone or out of use
Naught MineminePierceton Schoolschool

Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Pleasant Groves’ history

What year was Pleasant Groves founded?

The Pleasant Groves post office opened in 2000, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (4), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.