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Pleasant Hill, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71945. The Survey maps it on the Cove quadrangle. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Hill within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,252 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 73 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/incendiarism73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10457
30 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.8 acresTalihina AgencyBEER JOINT
22 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2002Debris and open burning14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined180 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone. 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
Dickey Clay Mfg. Co. DepositStonePast Producer
Rogers PitStonePast ProducerSurface
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
Dierks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerBedded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk 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
Hatfield2.1 miles16
Clayton Spur (historical)2.2 miles16
West Valley2.5 miles23
Cove3.2 miles16
Old Cove3.3 miles16
Buffalo (historical)4.2 miles16
Two Mile (historical)4.3 miles22
Lone Valley5.1 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 HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7203847The 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 63249. 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.