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.
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
John Bettis Houselisted 1985
Henry Copeland Houselisted 1985
Zachariah Ford Houselisted 1985- Davis Barnlisted 1985
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Marcella quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
93 since 1997Regional 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/incendiarism | 38 |
| Debris and open burning | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 18 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 14 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canard-Cajun | Clay, Phosphorus-Phosphates | Producer | ||
| E.B.Matheson | Iron | Producer | ||
| Mcbride Mines | Marble, Dimension, Flagstone | Producer | ||
| Meyersville Spur Limestone Property | Aluminum | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Stone | Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone | Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Barksdale Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1918 | |
| Cason Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1928 |
Storms near this place
5 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pleasant Grove | $150,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down around Pleasant Grove and Melrose. Some barns and chicken houses had their roofs blown off. |
| January 2022 | Heavy Rain | Pleasant Grove | - | COCORAHS observer southeast of Mountain View measured 3.65 inches of rain since the day before. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Pleasant Grove | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Flash Flood | Pleasant Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Pleasant Grove | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint James | 1.6 miles | 15 | |
| Marcella | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Chalybeate Springs | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Bluetip (historical) | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Kahoka (historical) | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Bothersome (historical) | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Melrose | 5.9 miles | 17 | |
| Ben | 6.9 miles | 15 |
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7203807 | 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 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.





