Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Pleasant Hill (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Pleasant Hill. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Pleasant Hill is located in Nevada County.
To see how the shape of Arkansas' counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Nevada County: Clark, Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Ouachita & Pike.
Below are the counties that are near Pleasant Hill. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Pleasant Hill:
- Nevada County (The home county of Pleasant Hill)
- The following are listed by their distance from Pleasant Hill, with the one closest to Pleasant Hill listed first.
- Boughton
(5 miles [8 km] to the east) - Prescott
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prescott
- Prescott is located in Nevada County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,927 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Prescott <2>
- Emmet
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south) - Laneburg
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south) - Bluff City
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bluff City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff City
- Bluff City is located in Nevada County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 114 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bluff City <2>
- Cale
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast) - Rosston
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosston
- Rosston is located in Nevada County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 235 people
- Zama ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast) - Bodcaw
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bodcaw
- Bodcaw is located in Nevada County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 126 people
- Willisville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willisville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willisville
- Willisville is located in Nevada County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 139 people
- Clark County
- The following are listed by their distance from Pleasant Hill, with the one closest to Pleasant Hill listed first.
- Okolona
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Okolona
- Okolona is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 135 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Okolona <2>
- Beirne
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east) - Gurdon
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gurdon
- Gurdon is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,066 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gurdon <2>
- Whelen Springs
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whelen Springs
- Whelen Springs is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 85 people
- Curtis
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast) - Gum Springs
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gum Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gum Springs
- Gum Springs is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 110 people
- Alpine
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north) - Amity
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north) - Arkadelphia
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkadelphia
- Arkadelphia is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,628 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Arkadelphia <2>
- Vaden
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east) - Caddo Valley
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Caddo Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caddo Valley
- Caddo Valley is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 635 people
- Griffithtown
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griffithtown
- Griffithtown is located in Clark County
- Hempstead County
- The following are listed by their distance from Pleasant Hill, with the one closest to Pleasant Hill listed first.
- Blevins
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west) - McCaskill
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west) - Perrytown
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest) - Oakhaven
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest) - Centerville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Centerville is located in Hempstead County
- Washington
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Washington have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington
- Washington is located in Hempstead County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 165 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Washington <2>
- Hope
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hope
- Hope is located in Hempstead County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,438 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hope <2>
- Ozan
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west) - Shover Springs
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Shover Springs. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shover Springs
- Shover Springs is located in Hempstead County
- Clow
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clow
- Clow is located in Hempstead County
- Doyle
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west) - Tokio
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tokio
- Tokio is located in Hempstead County
- Howard County
- The following are listed by their distance from Pleasant Hill, with the one closest to Pleasant Hill listed first.
- Buck Range
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Buck Range. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Range
- Buck Range is located in Howard County
- Nashville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nashville
- Nashville is located in Howard County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,290 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nashville <2>
- Corinth
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest) - Tollette
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tollette
- Tollette is located in Howard County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 247 people
- Mineral Springs
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mineral Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral Springs
- Mineral Springs is located in Howard County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,139 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mineral Springs <2>
- Saratoga
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saratoga have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saratoga
- Saratoga is located in Howard County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Saratoga <2>
- Ouachita County
- The following are listed by their distance from Pleasant Hill, with the one closest to Pleasant Hill listed first.
- Reader
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reader
- Reader is located in Ouachita County
- Chidester
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast) - Wyloe ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east) - Bragg City
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bragg City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bragg City
- Bragg City is located in Ouachita County
- Pike County
- The following are listed by their distance from Pleasant Hill, with the one closest to Pleasant Hill listed first.
- Piney Grove
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piney Grove
- Piney Grove is located in Pike County
- Bowen
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowen
- Bowen is located in Pike County
- Pisgah
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pisgah
- Pisgah is located in Pike County
- Antoine
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antoine
- Antoine is located in Pike County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 108 people
- Billstown
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billstown
- Billstown is located in Pike County
- Delight
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delight
- Delight is located in Pike County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 274 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Delight <2>
- Roy
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest) - Kimberley
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimberley
- Kimberley is located in Pike County
- Pike City
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pike City
- Pike City is located in Pike County
- Murfreesboro
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murfreesboro
- Murfreesboro is located in Pike County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,574 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Murfreesboro <2>
- Highland
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland
- Highland is located in Pike County
- Mount Moriah
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Moriah
- Mount Moriah is located in Pike County
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Pleasant Hill, see our County-by-County Page for Pleasant Hill.
Cemeteries Near Pleasant Hill ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pleasant Hill.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Pleasant Hill covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Pleasant Hill, with the one closest to Pleasant Hill listed first.
- Pleasant Hill Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Hill Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Pleasant Hill Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 5 miles [8 km]<4> to the southeast of Prescott.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1978385 <5>
- New Home Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Home Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the New Home Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Smyrna Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Smyrna Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Smyrna Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Midway Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Midway Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Midway Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<4> to the east of Prescott.
- The Midway Cemetery has also been known as:
- Midway UMC Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1979011 <5>
- Ebenezer Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ebenezer Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ebenezer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- De Ann Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the De Ann Cemetery
- The De Ann Cemetery has also been known as:
- DeAnn Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #640391 <5>
- Buchanan Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Buchanan Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Buchanan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Washington Hill Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Washington Hill Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #56720 <5>
- Providence Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Providence Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #55831 <5>
- Elizabeth Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elizabeth Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #53803 <5>
- Beards Chapel Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beards Chapel Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Beards Chapel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Artesian Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Artesian Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Artesian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Continue List (204 more) ...
- Macedonia Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Macedonia Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #54876 <5>
- Shorter Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Shorter Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Shorter Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Craven Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Craven Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Craven Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Macedonia Cemetery
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<6>
While we didn't find Pleasant Hill in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Pleasant Hill.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Pleasant Hill, with the one closest to Pleasant Hill listed first.
- Arcadia
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest) - Garlandville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Garlandville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garlandville
- Garlandville is located in Hempstead County
- Prescott
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prescott
- Prescott is located in Nevada County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,927 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Prescott <2>
- Boughton
(5 miles [8 km] to the east) - Wallaceburg
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wallaceburg have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallaceburg
- Wallaceburg is located in Hempstead County
- Bowen
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowen
- Bowen is located in Pike County
- De Ann
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest) - Emmet
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south) - Okolona
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Okolona
- Okolona is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 135 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Okolona <2>
- Antoine
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antoine
- Antoine is located in Pike County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 108 people
- Beirne
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east) - Laneburg
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south) - Continue List (13 more) ...
- Lackland ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast) - Dobyville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast) - Clear Spring
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clear Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Spring
- Clear Spring is located in Clark County
- Lackland ‑ Historic
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Pleasant Hill. See our List of 1890's Communities around Pleasant Hill.
Newspapers Published in Pleasant Hill ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 53 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pleasant Hill.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pleasant Hill, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pleasant Hill.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Pleasant Hill:
- Websites specific to Arkansas
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Website for the Arkansas History Commission
- Pages specific to Nevada County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Clark County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Hempstead County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Howard County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Ouachita County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Pike County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Clark County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Arkansas
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Arkansas
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Arkansas
- Cemeteries of Nevada County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Arkansas
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Arkansas
- Cemeteries of Nevada County
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Pleasant Hill. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Nevada County: www.co.nevada.ar.us/
The official website for State of Arkansas: https://portal.arkansas.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Pleasant Hill) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pleasant Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.8651, Longitude: -93.4280 In this case, the coordinates for Pleasant Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <6> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Pleasant Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |