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Banner, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Township 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72523. It lies near Bone Hill. The Survey maps it on the Concord quadrangle.

Banner within Cleburne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

60 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Banner between 1997 and 2020, burning about 944 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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 2006Smoking10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Debris and open burning13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2001Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2004Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Banner: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Lizzie BrannonManganesePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cleburne County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Banner in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 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
February 2019Flash FloodBanner-Flash flooding caused a creek to overflow, with a yard and basement flooded also.
August 2008Flash FloodBanner-Banner Loop Road was flooded at the intersection of Nicholson Road in the eastern part of the county.
August 2003HailBanner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cleburne 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
Concord1.7 miles17
Almond4.1 miles17
Wolf Bayou4.3 miles15
Drasco6.2 miles15
Ida6.3 miles15
Tyler (historical)7.1 miles15
Fivemile7.1 miles15
Wilburn9.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57324. 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.