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Pleasant Grove, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Johnson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71730. The Survey maps it on the Lockhart quadrangle. It stands 223 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Grove within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

60 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 1998 and 2020, burning about 485 acres in total. 6 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
6 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Natural7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionUNI15767649
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2011Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Grove in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 tornado. 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
October 2009Tornado (EF0)Pleasant Grove-An EF0 tornado touched down east northeast of Junction City, Arkansas. This tornado downed 3 large trees along with large limbs along it's path. Path width was 50 yards wide with a path length near 3.5 miles long.

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
Hillsboro3.9 miles16
Smith5.9 miles19
Catesville6.0 miles18
Caledonia6.1 miles18
Lamberton6.4 miles18
New Caledonia6.8 miles18
Cargile6.8 miles19
Kinard7.0 miles18

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 Q7203806The 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 59804. 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.