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Boxley, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72670. It stands on Moore Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boxley quadrangle.

Boxley within Newton County

On record in Boxley

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

56 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Boxley between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2,764 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning12
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
20 September 2000Arson/incendiarism36 acresBuffalo National RiverHIPPIE
20 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreBuffalo National RiverRUNNING CREEK
6 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2012Natural2.3 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGRASSY POINT
12 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2012Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2012Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Boxley: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc. 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
PoncaLead, ZincPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
BennettZinc, LeadPast Producer
MmcelhaneySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peck MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
BeechwoodZincPast Producer
Ponca City MineZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boxley in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2022HailBoxley-Golf ball sized hail was reported near Boxley.
July 2014Heavy RainBoxley-Rainfall measured 2.16 inches in less than two hours at Boxley.
January 2002Thunderstorm WindBoxley-Thunderstorm winds damaged a church and the roofs of several homes.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindBoxley-Several trees were blown down on Highway 21.
June 2001HailBoxley-Hail up to one inch in diameter damaged some crops just to the southeast of Boxley.
January 2002HailBoxley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Beechwood2.8 miles14
Shiloh3.0 miles9
Stoverville3.8 miles15
Ponca3.8 miles14
Mossville5.7 miles10
Murray5.8 miles9
Reeves6.7 miles10
George7.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 70785. 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.