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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.

Cherry Hill within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

24 since 1995

Regional 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
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1

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
4 September 1999Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2011Natural33 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2011Natural159 acresOuachita National ForestOPAL
26 August 2000Smoking12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2002Natural7.0 acresOuachita National ForestBIG FORK
17 August 2002Natural33 acresOuachita National ForestOPAL
15 August 2006Natural2.5 acresOuachita National ForestRAWLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

22 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2008Flash FloodCherry Hill$25,000Sandbagging 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 2008Tornado (EF0)Cherry Hill$10,000A roof was taken off a room that was being added to a house. A few trees were snapped off.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCherry Hill$5,000Trees were blown down.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindCherry Hill$5,000Trees were blown down on Polk 70.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindCherry Hill$3,000Trees were down between Cherry Hill and Opal on county roads 67, 663, and 664.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCherry Hill$2,000A power line was blown down on Arkansas 88.
November 2022Thunderstorm WindCherry Hill-Multiple trees and powerlines blown down in Cherry Hill.
September 2020Flash FloodCherry Hill-A water rescue was performed near Cherry Hill in eastern Polk County.
September 2020Flash FloodCherry Hill-Parts of Hwy. 88E near the Polk and Montgomery County border were underwater and impassable.
May 2015Flash FloodCherry Hill-Highway 88 was flooded, along with several other roads across the county.
August 2006LightningCherry Hill-Lightning sparked a small fire in a wooded area.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCherry Hill-Large tree limbs were knocked down.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindCherry Hill-Large tree limbs downed.
May 2002Flash FloodCherry 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 2001Thunderstorm WindCherry Hill-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
July 2009HailCherry Hill-no account filed
April 2007HailCherry Hill-no account filed
April 2003HailCherry Hill-no account filed
May 2003HailCherry Hill-no account filed
May 2003HailCherry Hill-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCherry Hill-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindCherry Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Yocana3.0 miles19
Opal3.2 miles15
Highland3.4 miles15
Posey Hollow5.6 miles19
Pine Grove5.8 miles19
Board Camp6.1 miles19
Ink6.7 miles19
Big Fork7.0 miles15

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 HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888730The 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.