BlockMount Pleasant, Arkansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Barren Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72561. It lies near Shaw Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mount Pleasant quadrangle. 353 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 614 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 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 Batesville quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1942 USGS Mt Pleasant quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Mt Pleasant quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Mount Pleasant quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
92 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,469 acres in total. None started naturally. 36 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 36 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 75 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 June 2006 | Debris and open burning | 26 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 45 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant: 30 past producers, 7 occurrences, 5 prospects, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Limestone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love Hollow Limestone Co. | Limestone, Dimension | Prospect | ||
| Time Stokes | Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite, Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Limestone, General | Unknown | ||
| Anderson Prospect | Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Austin Property | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Bevans Prospect | Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Bob Wilson Prospect | Manganese | Past Producer | 1916 | |
| Bone Prospect | Manganese | Past Producer | 1918 | |
| C.W.Maxfield Prospect | Manganese | Past Producer |
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.
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 Mount Pleasant | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2516366 | 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 77734. 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.