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Pleasant Home, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pike City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71958. It stands on Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Murfreesboro quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pleasant Home within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

65 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Home (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 263 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Arson/incendiarism12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2000Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Home (historical): 19 unknowns, 2 producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diamond, Mercury, Kaolin. 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
Pigeon Roost Mountain DepositBarium-BaritePast Producer
Twin Knobs ClaypitClayUnknown
UnknownKaolinUnknown
Pike City ProspectMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
UnnamedMercuryOccurrence
American MinesDiamondUnknown
Crater of Diamonds -NorthDiamondProspect
Crater of Diamonds -SouthDiamondProspect
Kimberlite MineDiamondUnknown
Mauney MineDiamondUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Arp (historical)0.9 miles13
Brocktown (historical)1.8 miles12
Stephenson (historical)2.5 miles13
Stanley (historical)3.0 miles14
Pike City3.1 miles12
Mount Moriah3.5 miles13
Murfreesboro3.9 miles13
Rabell (historical)4.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 64641. 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.