Mount Pleasant, Arkansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71658. The Survey maps it on the Portland quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1935 USGS Wilmot quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Wilmot quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2002 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
25 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 2001 and 2018, burning about 373 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2006 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 April 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 62417. 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.






