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Pleasant Hill, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Briggsville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72827. It stands on Poda Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bluffton quadrangle. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Hill within Yell 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

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Hill between 1997 and 2017, burning about 362 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 5 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
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
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 1999Natural8.0 acresOuachita National ForestALLEN FOOT #2
9 September 1999Natural12 acresOuachita National ForestALLEN FOOT #1
8 September 2012Natural23 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural2.0 acresOuachita National ForestCHULA
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism40 acresOuachita National ForestWAYCO
14 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1997Recreation and ceremony32 acresOuachita National ForestTRAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell 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 Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Hunt Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Yell 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
Fourche Valley2.0 miles16
Bluffton3.5 miles16
Briggsville3.9 miles13
Wing5.5 miles13
Young Gravelly6.6 miles16
Chalybeate Springs7.0 miles16
Chula7.3 miles16
Aly7.3 miles13

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 Q7203856The 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 73124. 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.