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Aly, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Ions Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72857. It stands on Robertson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Onyx quadrangle. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Aly within Yell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Aly between 1992 and 2019, burning about 870 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 17 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/incendiarism17
Natural15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 1999Natural8.0 acresOuachita National ForestALLEN FOOT #2
3 September 1992Naturalunder an acreOuachita National Forestnot named
2 September 2000Natural2.0 acresOuachita National ForestCHULA
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aly in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
November 2024Tornado (EFU)Aly-This tornado was confirmed by the KSRX (Ft. Smith radar) and KLZK radars as a tornado debris signature (TDS). Due to the limited road network and wooded terrain this tornado crossed over, the extent of the damage is unknown. However, satellite data shows a swath of uprooted or snapped trees beginning just to the east of County Road 86 and north of Onyx Trail. The tornado then moved northeast over County Road 82 towards Forest Service Road 85a-F lifting just before it got to NF Road. The tornado has been given a rating of EF-unknown (EF-U) since the extent of the damage is unknown.
September 2020Flash FloodAly-The Yell County sheriff's office reported flash flooding on Hwy. 27 in the Aly community.
April 2011Funnel CloudAly-A funnel cloud was sighted.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Aly-A weak tornado touched down briefly over southern Yell County. The only noted damage was a few small trees that were blown down and some large limbs snapped off trees.
May 1999HailAly-no account filed
June 1998HailAly-no account filed
April 1998HailAly-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAly-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yell 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
Chula4.5 miles16
Stillwater4.7 miles13
Onyx5.9 miles13
Pleasant Hill7.3 miles16
Fourche Valley9.2 miles16
Briggsville9.9 miles13
Bluffton10.0 miles16
Steve10.3 miles12

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 AlyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4738551The 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 74575. 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.