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Bruno, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marion County Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72633. It stands on East Fork Hampton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bruno quadrangle.

Bruno within Marion County

On record in Bruno

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 5 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

72 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Bruno between 1997 and 2018, burning about 1,394 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 30 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/incendiarism30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning12
Natural2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2011Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2004Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined34 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Bruno: 5 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Lowery Quarry-Eros LocationStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
J W HudsonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
LowerySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blankenship ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Fullbright ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Getzendener ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Phillips MineLead, ZincUnknown
San Juan ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Christie ProspectLeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bruno in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
February 2023Thunderstorm WindBruno$100,000Damage to homes were reported along with downed power lines. This was possibly a tornado.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBruno$15,000Trees were blown down, with two of the trees landing on houses.
April 2016HailBruno-Relayed by NWS Springfield.
April 2006Flash FloodBruno-Flash flooding washed a school bus off of a road about 3 miles south of Bruno. No one was injured.
August 2006HailBruno-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindBruno-no account filed
April 1995HailBruno-no account filed
May 1995HailBruno-no account filed
November 1994HailBruno-no account filed
November 1994Thunderstorm WindBruno-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Big Springs (historical)3.1 miles16
Verona3.6 miles16
Eros4.7 miles16
Freck4.9 miles17
Ralph5.8 miles16
Comal6.4 miles16
Powell6.8 miles16
Turkey7.0 miles16

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 BrunoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4979111The 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 76437. 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.