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Cabanal, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Southeast Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72616. It lies near Gage Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Berryville quadrangle.

Cabanal within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 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

55 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Cabanal between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,215 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 27 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/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning11
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 1999Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2012Natural6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2012Natural8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 May 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cabanal: 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Fancher TractManganeseProspect
Hittson ProspectManganeseOccurrence

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cabanal in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
April 2022FloodCabanal1 killedA vehicle driven into a flooded low water crossing near the intersection of county roads 705 and 741 was swept away, with the driver drowning in the flood water. Heavy rainfall had ended by early afternoon, but some low water crossings remained flooded well after the rain had stopped.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCabanal$10,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs and power lines.
April 2011Flash FloodCabanal-Several county roads were closed due to high water south of Berryville and also near Rule.

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Metalton3.8 miles13
Rule3.8 miles12
Rudd5.1 miles13
Conner5.3 miles13
Cave Spring (historical)5.5 miles13
Norton (historical)5.9 miles12
New Town (historical)5.9 miles12
Dean6.0 miles13

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 CabanalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38250485The 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 76483. 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.