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Pike City, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pike City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71958. The Survey maps it on the Delight quadrangle.

Pike City 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

57 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Pike City between 1997 and 2020, burning about 438 acres in total. 6 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 burning11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural6
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
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Arson/incendiarism12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2000Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined24 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 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Pike City: 11 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury. 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
FeatherstoneMercuryOccurrenceMercury
Pike City ProspectMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
Superior Mining Co.MercuryPast Producer1942
UnnamedMercuryOccurrence
Wall Rock ShaftMercuryPast ProducerCinnabar
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pike City in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 3 hail, 3 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
April 2024Thunderstorm WindPike City-Numerous trees were blown down northwest of Pike City.
August 2021HailPike City-A Pike County deputy reported dime sized hail at Tower Mtn. between Kirby and Murfreesboro.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPike City-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs.
March 2010HailPike City-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindPike City-no account filed
March 1993HailPike City-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
Arp (historical)3.0 miles13
Pleasant Home (historical)3.1 miles13
Rabell (historical)3.1 miles12
Brocktown (historical)3.3 miles12
Stanley (historical)3.6 miles14
Hopewell (historical)3.8 miles12
Wright (historical)4.0 miles12
Stelltown4.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 53370. 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.