Union Hill, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in District 6. It lies in ZIP code area 72833. It stands on Parker Branch. The Survey maps it on the Freedom Mountain quadrangle.

Union Hill within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1887 USGS Mount Ida #2 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Mount Ida quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1890 USGS Mt Ida quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Parks quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Lake Ouachita quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Freedom Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Union Hill between 1993 and 2018, burning about 578 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 September 2006	Debris and open burning	258 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	148
29 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	A.J.
19 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2000	Natural	10 acres	Ouachita National Forest	SPANISH OAK
18 August 2004	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2004	Debris and open burning	7.5 acres	Ouachita National Forest	HALETOWN
22 July 2006	Natural	11 acres	Ouachita National Forest	OAK RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott 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 Union Hill: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Scott 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
Olio	3.7 miles	16
Nola	4.3 miles	16
Blue Ball	4.4 miles	16
Nebraska (historical)	4.5 miles	16
Harvey	5.9 miles	16
Little Texas	6.9 miles	16
Cardiff	7.6 miles	16
Girard (historical)	9.9 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 66343. 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.