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Buell, Arkansas

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72916. It lies near Brooks Stephins Mountain. The Survey maps it on the South Fort Smith quadrangle.

Buell within Sebastian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

25 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Buell between 1998 and 2017, burning about 160 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
15 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2001Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2012Arson/incendiarism12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Buell: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aggregate, Light Weight. 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
Rescolite CompanyAggregate, Light WeightPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fort Smith PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buell in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
March 2015Thunderstorm WindBuell-A storm spotter measured thunderstorm wind gusts to 72 mph.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBuell-Thunderstorm winds uprooted several trees. Report relayed by NSSL through the SHAVE project.
May 2014HailBuell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
Saw Mill1.0 miles25
Crescent1.6 miles25
South Fort Smith2.2 miles25
Cavanaugh2.4 miles25
White Bluff2.5 miles25
Bashe2.9 miles25
Mill Creek3.3 miles25
Enterprise3.6 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57463. 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.