Pisgah, Arkansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Centerville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72834. The Survey maps it on the Dardanelle quadrangle.

Pisgah within Yell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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.

1888 USGS Dardanelle #4 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Dardanelle quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Dardanelle quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Dardanelle quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

43 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Pisgah between 1997 and 2018, burning about 359 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Smoking	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Pisgah: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unk	Clay	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk Gravel Pits 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Yell 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ard	1.7 miles	21
Mount George	2.6 miles	18
Mosley	2.8 miles	18
Chickalah	3.1 miles	18
Prosperity	3.2 miles	21
Oak Grove	3.4 miles	21
Alpha	3.7 miles	17
Centerville	3.8 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 79149. 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.