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Black Diamond, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sulphur Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71834. The Survey maps it on the Doddridge NW quadrangle.

Black Diamond within Miller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

93 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Black Diamond between 1997 and 2020, burning about 745 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 27 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 burning27
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Smoking58 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2011Natural40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMIL15534247
22 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Black Diamond in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
January 2013Thunderstorm WindBlack Diamond$70,000A large barn was destroyed and numerous trees were downed across the area. A trailer was overturned as well near CR. 413 off of CR. 6.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindBlack Diamond-A power pole was snapped with a power line pulled away from a home at mile marker 6 on Highway 71 South.
June 2023HailBlack Diamond-Quarter size hail reported along Interstate 49 between Fouke, Arkansas and Ida, Louisiana.
April 2020HailBlack Diamond-A picture was posted to social media of quarter size hail that fell near the Doddridge community.

Every storm recorded in Miller 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
Fort Lynn2.4 miles15
Doddridge3.0 miles16
Spring Bank (historical)3.9 miles15
Brightstar4.5 miles16
Kiblah5.9 miles16
Smithville6.1 miles15
Boggy6.3 miles15
Jonesville6.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57385. 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.

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.