Bee Branch, Arkansas

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 3 records

• Collums-Baker Houselisted 1992
• Art Scanlan Houselisted 1999
• South Side High School Signlisted 2023

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.

• 1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Bee Branch quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Bee Branch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
• 1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Conway quadrangle1:100000
• 1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
• 1991 USGS Bee Branch quadrangle1:24000
• 1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Bee Branch between 1997 and 2020, burning about 722 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• East Mountain (historical)
• Southside
• Bloomington (historical)
• Choctaw
• Choctaw Pines
• Green Tree

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bee Branch: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bee Branch in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Van Buren County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76277. 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.