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Alco, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72680. It lies near Roper Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Onia quadrangle. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.

Alco within Stone County

On record in Alco

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Alco between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,616 acres in total. None started naturally. 46 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/incendiarism46
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
29 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsFLAT
15 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGARAGE
11 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsPAUL
10 August 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsROASTING SET 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Alco: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkStoneProducer
UnkStoneProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stone County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alco in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindAlco$5,000Thunderstorm winds twisted and broke off several trees.
March 2023Tornado (EF2)Alco-This tornado started just south of Arkansas Hwy 66 near Alco,|moving northeast towards Arkansas Hwy 263 between Onia and Timbo.|After crossing the Arkansas Hwy 263, it ripped the roof off a|house and moved this house off the foundation. The tornado then|moved northeast crossing Big Springs Road, uprooting several|trees. The tornado then lifted just northeast of here before|Clearwater Road. This tornado was rated an EF2 with estimated maximum winds of 111 mph.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindAlco-Personal instrument owned by public recorded a 63 mph wind gust.
August 2016Heavy RainAlco-The rainfall amount was estimated over the past 1 to 2 hours. Estimated rainfall was 3 inches.
July 1996HailAlco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
Timbo2.9 miles15
Onia3.0 miles15
Harness3.7 miles15
Pleasant Hill4.2 miles15
Mozart4.4 miles15
Flag4.9 miles15
Big Springs5.2 miles15
Oga (historical)6.0 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on AlcoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4713199The 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 70417. 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.