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Buford, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in District 11. It lies in ZIP code area 72653. It lies near Hip Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo City quadrangle.

Buford within Baxter County

On record in Buford

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

11 surveys from 18 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

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Buford between 1994 and 2020, burning about 810 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2005Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2012Debris and open burning42 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined27 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baxter 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 Buford: 3 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Mercury, 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
MeerscheidtLead, Mercury, ZincProspect
Cincinnati ProspectLead, ZincProspect
Commercial ProspectLead, ZincProspect
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Baxter County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buford in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBuford$10,000Trees were blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBuford$5,000Several trees were blown down on Old Military Rd.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBuford$1,000A tree was blown down.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindBuford-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindBuford-Few trees downed.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindBuford-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
May 2005LightningBuford-Lightning struck a large tree, causing it to fall onto the roof of a nearby house. Only minor damage occurred.
November 2005Tornado (F1)Buford-A tornado was spawned in Baxter County about 2.5 miles east-southeast of Buford. The tornado tracked to the northeast, and caused mostly tree damage. A barn roof was also damaged, with an outbuilding destroyed. The tornado dissipated 4 miles south-southeast of Mountain Home.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBuford-Several trees were blown down.
July 2010HailBuford-no account filed
April 2006HailBuford-no account filed
April 2006HailBuford-no account filed
July 2004Flash FloodBuford-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindBuford-no account filed
May 1998HailBuford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baxter 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
Conville (historical)1.8 miles18
Laytonville (historical)2.5 miles18
Shady Grove2.6 miles18
Cartney4.3 miles18
Shipp4.3 miles17
Gassville4.3 miles18
Colfax4.5 miles18
Heritage Estates4.6 miles18

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 BufordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4986026The 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 70915. 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.