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Botkinburg, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72629. It lies near George Main Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Botkinburg quadrangle.

Botkinburg within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

53 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Botkinburg between 1997 and 2017, burning about 771 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2

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
3 September 2005Natural6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2012Debris and open burning25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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 Botkinburg: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Botkinburg in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 14 hail, 5 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 1993Thunderstorm WindBotkinburg$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
February 2005Thunderstorm WindBotkinburg-Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a storage shed.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindBotkinburg-Power lines were blown down on Highway 65 south of Botkinburg.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBotkinburg-Some large tree limbs were blown down.
June 1995HailBotkinburg-Hail the size of quarters damaged some roofs.
April 2023HailBotkinburg-no account filed
April 2023HailBotkinburg-no account filed
April 2018HailBotkinburg-no account filed
April 2018HailBotkinburg-no account filed
April 2018HailOld Botkinburg-no account filed
August 2012HailBotkinburg-no account filed
June 2012HailBotkinburg-no account filed
July 2004HailBotkinburg-no account filed
May 2003HailBotkinburg-no account filed
January 2002HailBotkinburg-no account filed
August 2001HailBotkinburg-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindBotkinburg-no account filed
June 1996HailBotkinburg-no account filed
June 1995HailBotkinburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Old Botkinburg2.2 miles16
Plant3.5 miles16
Archey (historical)3.5 miles16
Dennard4.0 miles15
Rocky Hill4.3 miles16
Oak Flat (historical)5.1 miles15
Elba6.1 miles15
Crabtree6.2 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122560535The 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 57414. 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.