BlockPleasant Grove, Arkansas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Augusta Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72112. The Survey maps it on the Augusta NE quadrangle. It stands 226 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1935 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500
- 1967 USGS Augusta NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1971 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove between 1999 and 2016, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 June 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 March 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Grove in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2011: 7 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Flood | Pleasant Grove | $5,000 | High levels on the White River caused areal flooding in Woodruff County throughout June and on into July. |
| July 2011 | Flood | Pleasant Grove | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Flood | Pleasant Grove | - | More than 20,000 acres of row crops were flooded in Woodruff County during the month of May. As many as 5,000 acres were planted in soybeans. |
| June 2009 | Flood | Pleasant Grove | - | High water levels along the White River in May were receding in early June. Agricultural damages that occurred in May could not be corrected until the river fell back into its banks. Replantings were delayed. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Pleasant Grove | - | Flood control releases from Bull Shoals and Norfork Dams in the upper White River basin caused minor flooding along the lower White River in the Augusta reach of the river. The river remained above flood stage throughout the month of June. Primary impact was to the row crop agricultural community with portions of the Taylor Bay bottoms flooded or isolated by high water. Dollar damages were reported in May totals. |
| September 2008 | Flood | Pleasant Grove | - | Heavy rainfall from Tropical Depression Gustav created minor flooding along the White River. Approximately 1000 acres of soybeans were flooded and destroyed in the Augusta vicinity on the Woodruff County side of the river. |
| July 2008 | Flood | Pleasant Grove | - | Reservoir releases from the upstream Corps of Engineers' lakes prolonged the high water event and kept the stage at Augusta above flood stage into the middle of the month. While the stage remained slightly above flood stage, farmers planted down to the water's edge. A brief period of higher stages during the week after the 4th of July holiday put water over several hundred acres of newly sprouted soybeans and killed the tender plants. Additional damages were noted. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fitzhugh | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Overcup | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Simmons (historical) | 4.3 miles | 10 | |
| Negro Head Corner (historical) | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Goodrich | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Union | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Riverside | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| New Salem | 7.1 miles | 12 |
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 Q7203810 | 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 75623. 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.