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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.

Mount Pleasant within Ashley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

25 since 2001

Regional 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
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
28 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2006Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 April 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley 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
Post Oak2.9 miles13
Thebes3.1 miles13
Snyder3.2 miles13
Phelan (historical)3.3 miles13
Mist4.4 miles13
Donbey5.1 miles13
Portland5.5 miles16
Sunshine6.2 miles16

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.