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Ava, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Tyler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72857. It lies near Marble Hill. The Survey maps it on the Nimrod SW quadrangle. It stands 568 feet above sea level.

Ava within Perry County

On record in Ava

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 1 record

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

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Ava between 1994 and 2020, burning about 532 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 15 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/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning9
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
12 September 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreOuachita National ForestHORNET
4 August 2011Naturalunder an acreOuachita National ForestBRUSH CREEK
30 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2006Naturalunder an acreOuachita National ForestGLENHAVEN
2 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2007Debris and open burning3.1 acresOuachita National ForestBLYTHE #-1
16 August 2006Natural7.5 acresOuachita National ForestCOVE MOUNTAIN #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ava: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Beard AreaSilicaProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ava in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 hail. 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
October 2022HailAva-Ping pong ball sized hail was reported about a mile south of Nimrod Lake.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Hollis5.0 miles15
Fourche Junction6.5 miles12
Nimrod9.2 miles13
Deberrie11.2 miles13
Casa13.5 miles18
West Aplin13.7 miles14
Aplin14.0 miles14
Homewood16.4 miles18

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 AvaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24191764The 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 65184. 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.