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Baldwin, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Fayetteville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72701. The Survey maps it on the Elkins quadrangle. It stands 1,217 feet above sea level.

Baldwin within Washington County

On record in Baldwin

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

23 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Baldwin between 2000 and 2017, burning about 96 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
28 August 2010Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Baldwin: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Cove Creek Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baldwin in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
June 2019Flash FloodBaldwin$10,000A vehicle was stranded in flood water across Dead Horse Mountain Road in southeastern Fayetteville.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Baldwin$1,000A brief tornado blew down large tree limbs at Stonebridge Meadows Golf Club, caused minor damage to fences, and blew a trampoline about 120 yards over a house.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted a large tree on Cherry Hill Drive.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-Large tree limbs were snapped by strong thunderstorm wind.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs on the southeast side of Fayetteville.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-A home weather station in the Stonebridge Meadows Subdivision measured thunderstorm wind gusts of 80 mph.
April 2011Flash FloodBaldwin-A swift water rescue was necessary due to flooding of Stonebridge Road in Southeast Fayetteville.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Summit (historical)1.2 miles18
Ruckers Grove (historical)1.5 miles18
Wyman2.3 miles18
Harris2.9 miles18
Strain2.9 miles18
Fayetteville3.4 miles19
Sydenham (historical)3.8 miles18
McNair4.2 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.

Wikipedia article on BaldwinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4850500The 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 57317. 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.