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Pleasant Ridge, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72756. It stands on Pleasant Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Rogers quadrangle.

Pleasant Ridge 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

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Ridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 436 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism8

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
25 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionBENTON 232
29 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Ridge: 1 past producer, 1 unknown, 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
RogersSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
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
Prairie Creek1.9 miles18
Electric Springs (historical)2.1 miles18
Monte Ne2.2 miles18
Monte Ne Shores2.3 miles18
Rogers2.3 miles18
Silver Springs (historical)2.6 miles18
Puckett (historical)3.1 miles18
Beaver Shores3.1 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 75972. 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.