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Blakely, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Hale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71949. It stands on Still Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jessieville quadrangle.

Blakely within Garland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Blakely between 1992 and 2020, burning about 796 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 71 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
Arson/incendiarism71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural11
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionGAR22988967

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Blakely: 14 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz, Calcium. 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
No NameCalciumPast Producer
No NameClayPast Producer
Terry QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Blocker Lead QuartzQuartzProducer1940
John Mcearl TractQuartzProducer1940
Quartz Processing Corp. QuarryQuartzProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Colemans MillSilicaProducer

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this place

6 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blakely in 6 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 3 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2023Tornado (EF1)Blakely2 hurt, $5,000,000This tornado began just to the southwest of Jessieville, causing tree damage around an Arkansas Forestry Commission building. The tornado then quickly moved northeast into Jessieville, and caused damage to a few homes in town. Most notably, damage was noted to several buildings on the campus of Jessieville High School, and three out of four fixed light poles for the football field were bent over. The tornado continued to move northeast, doing damage to a pole barn just north of town, before finally dissipating.
March 2024HailBlakely-Baseball-sized hail fell near Jessieville.
June 2023HailBlakely-Golf ball sized hail fell across the community of Jessieville.
April 2017Heavy RainBlakely-The 24 hour rainfall total was 4.11 inches.
February 2017Funnel CloudBlakely-no account filed
March 2016HailBlakely-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garland 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
Jessieville0.5 miles13
Blue Springs1.6 miles13
Lena (historical)2.6 miles13
Hamilton3.4 miles13
Hot Springs Village4.1 miles14
Beaudry (historical)4.3 miles14
Mountain Valley4.7 miles13
Ozark Lithia7.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 70710. 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.