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Pigeon Hill, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Wilmington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71730. It lies near Pigeon Hills. The Survey maps it on the Moro Bay quadrangle.

Pigeon Hill within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

59 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Pigeon Hill between 1998 and 2020, burning about 411 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2009Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pigeon Hill in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPigeon Hill-A tree was blown down on Highway 63 and Pigeon Hill Landing Road.
June 2014HailPigeon Hill-Hail was reported east of Calion, Arkansas near Pigeon Hill.
September 2009Flash FloodPigeon Hill-High water was running across Ed Fuller Road just south of Hwy. 63.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Careyville Landing2.6 miles17
New London6.0 miles16
McGlendon Mill6.6 miles16
Crain City8.0 miles15
Lawson8.6 miles16
Champagnolle9.1 miles15
Urbana9.2 miles16
Perdue City9.5 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 59799. 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.