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Highland, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brewer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71852. The Survey maps it on the Nathan quadrangle.

Highland within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

32 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Highland between 1998 and 2020, burning about 420 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
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
28 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Smoking20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Natural18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2011Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1999Arson/incendiarism80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Highland: 22 unknowns, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Mercury, Strontium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown QuarryStoneUnknown
V. B. Lewis PitStrontiumUnknown
Muddy ForkMercuryPast Producer1939, 1945
Salt Gum FordMercuryUnknown
Arkansas Gypsum CompanyGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
F S Neely Co MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Highland MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Unknown MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Unknown MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHighland$25,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2009Flash FloodHighland$5,000A woman had to be rescued from a house as water rose due to flooding.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindHighland-Trees were down near Diamond Park Speedway between Murfreesboro and Nashville. The time was estimated from the radar.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindHighland-A tree was downed on Nathan Road outside Murfreesboro.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindHighland-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs and removed tin from the roofs of 2 chicken houses.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHighland-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and power lines.
April 2004HailHighland-no account filed
May 2002HailHighland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Cooleyville1.0 miles12
Norvelle (historical)3.1 miles12
Ball (historical)3.9 miles13
Maxwell (historical)4.0 miles13
Roy4.4 miles13
Kimberley4.4 miles13
Murfreesboro4.7 miles13
Nathan5.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57924. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.