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Pleasant Grove, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in District 6. It lies in ZIP code area 72567. It stands on Knights Cove Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marcella quadrangle. 235 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 476 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Grove within Stone County

On record in Pleasant Grove

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

93 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,363 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 38 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/incendiarism38
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2

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
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2004Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove: 5 producers, 5 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay. 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
Canard-CajunClay, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProducer
E.B.MathesonIronProducer
Mcbride MinesMarble, Dimension, FlagstoneProducer
Meyersville Spur Limestone PropertyAluminumPast ProducerSurface
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkStoneProducer
UnkStoneProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Barksdale MineManganesePast Producer1918
Cason MineManganesePast Producer1928

Every working recorded in Stone County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Grove in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
September 2012Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove$150,000Trees and power lines were blown down around Pleasant Grove and Melrose. Some barns and chicken houses had their roofs blown off.
January 2022Heavy RainPleasant Grove-COCORAHS observer southeast of Mountain View measured 3.65 inches of rain since the day before.
May 2003HailPleasant Grove-no account filed
September 2003Flash FloodPleasant Grove-no account filed
May 1998HailPleasant Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
Saint James1.6 miles15
Marcella2.4 miles15
Chalybeate Springs3.6 miles15
Bluetip (historical)4.3 miles15
Kahoka (historical)4.7 miles15
Bothersome (historical)4.9 miles15
Melrose5.9 miles17
Ben6.9 miles15

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 Pleasant GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7203807The 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 78030. 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.