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Austin, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Austin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72031. It lies near Woolverton Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Formosa quadrangle.

Austin within Conway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

290 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 290 fires within 5 miles of Austin between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,596 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 183 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/incendiarism183
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Debris and open burning46
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural6

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 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conway 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 Austin: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Conway County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Austin in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2017Tornado (EF0)Austin$40,000Survey team found partial damage to a roof and a few barns destroyed.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindAustin$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Conway 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
Woolverton (historical)1.5 miles16
Friendship4.7 miles16
Pleasant Hill5.1 miles16
Center Ridge5.1 miles16
Catholic Point6.9 miles16
Lost Corner7.1 miles16
Grandview7.2 miles16
Sunnyside7.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 56911. 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.