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Pleasant Hill, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Clark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72863. It stands on East Fork Cane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Scranton quadrangle. It stands 420 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Hill within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

34 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1997 and 2017, burning about 245 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
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 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBIG CARTER
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use11 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2012Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill: 9 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
Texas LedgestoneStone, DimensionPast Producer
B & G Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gilbert Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shoal Creek Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Var ContrSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arkansas Rainbow Stone Quarry &MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
MagazineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
PattersonStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
River Mountain Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
S & W Rk QyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Logan 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
Wilkins0.5 miles20
Plainview2.0 miles20
Spielerville (historical)2.5 miles20
Cotton Town2.6 miles20
Union3.1 miles20
Subiaco3.3 miles20
Sand Ridge3.6 miles20
Ellsworth (historical)4.4 miles20

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 HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7203858The 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 78042. 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.