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Pleasant Grove, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Craig Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72030. It lies near Round Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Formosa quadrangle. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Grove within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

197 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 1998 and 2020, burning about 4,214 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 101 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/incendiarism101
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Debris and open burning33
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Arson/incendiarism17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Grove in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 5 injuries. 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 2013Tornado (EF2)Pleasant Grove5 hurt, $3,500,000An EF2 tornado destroyed a church, badly damaged a fire station, and also damaged a natural gas well. Six houses were destroyed, 14 had major damage, 29 had minor damage, and 20 others had very minor damage. Many of the damaged houses had roofs partially torn off. Several dozen outbuildings were damaged or destroyed. A number of vehicles were damaged and some were overturned.
March 2010Thunderstorm WindPleasant Grove$40,000The roof of a chicken house was blown off and a few trees blown down south of Scotland.

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Gravel Hill1.5 miles16
Claude1.5 miles16
Edge (historical)2.1 miles16
Scotland2.4 miles15
Pine Mountain (historical)2.4 miles15
Gridley (historical)3.4 miles16
Old Liberty (historical)3.7 miles16
Racket Ridge (historical)4.1 miles16

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 Q7203808The 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 58398. 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.