THE PLEASANT HILL LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Wooded Osage Plains setting.
Pleasant Hill city has 8.05 square miles of land in Cass County, Jackson County. Its Census reference point is in Wooded Osage Plains, within Central Irregular Plains.
Irregular plains form a transition between northern agricultural country and more wooded uplands to the south and east. Grassland and forest historically mixed, with wider woodland belts beside streams.
Regional context: Central Irregular Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
One place name. 2 county geographies.
Pleasant Hill intersects 2 county geographies: Cass County, Jackson County. A Pleasant Hill mailing address alone cannot choose the right record office; use the county and parcel identifier on the tax bill or deed.
Pleasant Hill by land and water
The Census records 0.17 square miles of water within Pleasant Hill, or 2% of its total area. It is 0.7 percentage points higher than the 1.4% recorded for Missouri. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pleasant Hill city has 105.9 times the land area of nearby Baldwin Park village (0.08 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

