Sand Hill, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Calhoun Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72040. It stands on Sand Hill. The Survey maps it on the Gregory SW quadrangle.

Sand Hill within Prairie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1935 USGS Gregory quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Gregory quadrangle1:62500
1968 USGS Gregory SW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1972 USGS Gregory quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sand Hill between 2014 and 2015, burning about 176 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
14 February 2015	Debris and open burning	117 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 November 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	59 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	PRA419837

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sand Hill in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sand Hill	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Sand Hill	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged a small building at Sand Hill.
July 2005	Hail	Sand Hill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Prairie 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Erwin	2.6 miles	14
Des Arc	3.9 miles	14
Bay Plantation	4.0 miles	14
Harrys (historical)	4.8 miles	14
Harrys	5.8 miles	16
Hunterton (historical)	5.8 miles	12
Enarc (historical)	6.3 miles	12
Plunketts	7.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 54538. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.