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Blue Hill, Arkansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Hill Township. It stands on Blue Hill. The Survey maps it on the North Little Rock quadrangle.

Blue Hill within Pulaski County

On record in Blue Hill

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 21 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

54 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Blue Hill between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,877 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning12
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Smoking3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2006Debris and open burning30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski 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
Marche1.1 miles21
Morgan1.8 miles17
Oak Grove2.3 miles21
Mineral (historical)2.7 miles21
Maumelle3.2 miles20
West Marche3.4 miles19
Jeffrey3.7 miles21
Haig4.0 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57397. 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.