Blackton, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hindman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72069. The Survey maps it on the Monroe quadrangle. It stands 180 feet above sea level.

Blackton within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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.

1940 USGS Holly Grove quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Holly Grove quadrangle1:62500
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:24000
1974 USGS Holly Grove quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Blackton between 2000 and 2015, burning about 144 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
23 August 2000	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2000	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 April 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	27 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 October 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 October 2015	Debris and open burning	75 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 October 2000	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blackton in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2023	Hail	Blackton	-	Hail was estimated to be golf ball sized in Blackton.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Blackton	-	There was a tree down in the southbound lane of of Highway 49 south in Blackton.
October 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Blackton	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines.
March 2005	Hail	Blackton	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Blackton	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Blackton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Towle (historical)	0.7 miles	14
Raymond (historical)	2.4 miles	14
Smale	3.0 miles	14
Monroe	4.6 miles	14
Perman (historical)	4.8 miles	14
Pine City	5.9 miles	14
Park Grove	5.9 miles	14
Palmer	6.6 miles	14

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 Blackton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4923471	The 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 76371. 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.