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Pleasant Hill, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72756. The Survey maps it on the Pea Ridge quadrangle.

Pleasant Hill within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

29 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1997 and 2019, burning about 365 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism6

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
29 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePea Ridge National Military ParkSUGAR CREEK
7 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 April 2003Debris and open burning15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill: 4 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Copper. 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
Page MineCopperProspect
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Little Flock1.3 miles18
Woods (historical)2.0 miles17
Electric Springs (historical)2.4 miles18
Apple Spur2.9 miles17
Avoca2.9 miles18
Rogers3.0 miles18
Prairie Creek3.6 miles18
Puckett (historical)4.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 75967. 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.