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Aetna, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Scott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72521. The Survey maps it on the Grange quadrangle.

Aetna within Sharp County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

125 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Aetna between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,541 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 48 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
Arson/incendiarism48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Debris and open burning28
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sharp County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Aetna: 3 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Zinc, Lead. 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
Carolyn NewmanManganeseOccurrence
FitzhughLead, ZincPast Producer
GolcondaZinc, LeadPast Producer
Iron Ore MountainIronPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkIronUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sharp County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aetna in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2018Thunderstorm WindAetna$50,000Chicken house roofs were damaged and removed. Outbuildings were damaged. The damage was consistent with straight-line winds in excess of 70 mph.
April 2008Flash FloodAetna$50,000Roads in Sharp county were washed out.
February 2018Thunderstorm WindAetna-Several outbuildings were damaged. Some of the trees were blown down. The damage was consistent with straight-line winds of 60-80 mph.
April 2008Flash FloodAetna-Roads in Sharp County were washed out.

Every storm recorded in Sharp 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
Mobley (historical)2.5 miles11
Shelbyville2.7 miles11
Simco (historical)3.2 miles11
Calamine5.6 miles8
Cave City5.8 miles19
Balboa (historical)7.4 miles8
Amateur (historical)7.5 miles8
Maxville8.1 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q4688743The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 66149. 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.

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.