Cherry Hill, Arkansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mountain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71953. It stands on Turbin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pine Ridge quadrangle. It stands 886 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Mount Ida quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1890 USGS Mt Ida quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Oden quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Lake Ouachita quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Pine Ridge quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
24 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Hill between 1995 and 2019, burning about 392 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 August 2011 | Natural | 33 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 August 2011 | Natural | 159 acres | Ouachita National Forest | OPAL |
| 26 August 2000 | Smoking | 12 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 August 2002 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Ouachita National Forest | BIG FORK |
| 17 August 2002 | Natural | 33 acres | Ouachita National Forest | OPAL |
| 15 August 2006 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Ouachita National Forest | RAWLS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cherry Hill in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 5 hail, 1 lightning. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Cherry Hill | $25,000 | Sandbagging was needed at the emergency room at the hospital in Mena. Up to a foot of water was over places on U.S. Highway 71. Arkansas Highway 375 had up to 6 inches of standing water. Standing water was also reported on many streets and roadways across the county. |
| March 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Cherry Hill | $10,000 | A roof was taken off a room that was being added to a house. A few trees were snapped off. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cherry Hill | $5,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cherry Hill | $5,000 | Trees were blown down on Polk 70. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cherry Hill | $3,000 | Trees were down between Cherry Hill and Opal on county roads 67, 663, and 664. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cherry Hill | $2,000 | A power line was blown down on Arkansas 88. |
| November 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cherry Hill | - | Multiple trees and powerlines blown down in Cherry Hill. |
| September 2020 | Flash Flood | Cherry Hill | - | A water rescue was performed near Cherry Hill in eastern Polk County. |
| September 2020 | Flash Flood | Cherry Hill | - | Parts of Hwy. 88E near the Polk and Montgomery County border were underwater and impassable. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Cherry Hill | - | Highway 88 was flooded, along with several other roads across the county. |
| August 2006 | Lightning | Cherry Hill | - | Lightning sparked a small fire in a wooded area. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cherry Hill | - | Large tree limbs were knocked down. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cherry Hill | - | Large tree limbs downed. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Cherry Hill | - | Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding to occur along Highway 88 west of Cherry Hill. Several county roads in the Cherry Hill area were also covered by high water for a short period of time. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cherry Hill | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Cherry Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Cherry Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Cherry Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Cherry Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Cherry Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cherry Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cherry Hill | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yocana | 3.0 miles | 19 | |
| Opal | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Highland | 3.4 miles | 15 | |
| Posey Hollow | 5.6 miles | 19 | |
| Pine Grove | 5.8 miles | 19 | |
| Board Camp | 6.1 miles | 19 | |
| Ink | 6.7 miles | 19 | |
| Big Fork | 7.0 miles | 15 |
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 Cherry Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q54888730 | The 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 76600. 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.
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.








