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Pleasant Hill is a city in Polk County, Iowa, United States. The population was 10,147 at the time of the 2020 census. It is portion of the Des Moines metropolitan area. As of July 2005, Pleasant Hill was assigned a ZIP code, 50327.

Pleasant Hill incorporated as a city on May 12, 1956.

On November 20, 1983, an explosion of an explosives storage bunker just south of Pleasant Hill occurred. Reports were that two youngsters were hunting with citation to the area. One of the youngsters may have shot a bullet from a hill which penetrated the bunker ceiling, which was deemed the probable cause of the explosion. The two youngsters were killed in the explosion, leaving only little pieces of shirts. The explosion was felt 45 miles away from the site. At least 25 homes within a one-mile radius of the explosion suffered damage, doors and windows were blown out, ceilings fell and houses were knocked off their foundations, police said. One house, 300 yards directly in the works the valley from the shack, suffered an inch-wide break the entire width of its basement wall.