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Canehill, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in Cane Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72717. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln quadrangle. 74 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,319 feet above sea level.

Canehill within Washington County

On record in Canehill

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 12 of 16 shown

Every listing in Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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 Canehill between 1998 and 2017, burning about 235 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
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
5 September 2000Natural8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2011Debris and open burning60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Canehill: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canehill in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 3 flash flood, 1 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
June 2015Flash FloodCanehill$15,000Three vehicles were stranded in flood water on Highway 45.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCanehill$100Tree blown down on SH 45 near Canehill.
June 2019Flash FloodCanehill-Portions of several roads near Canehill were flooded.
July 2007Flash FloodCanehill-Heavy rain caused flooding which required Highway 45 to be closed.
April 2004HailCanehill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Clyde1.3 miles15
Lincoln3.2 miles15
Hubbard4.1 miles16
Morrow4.1 miles15
Skylight4.6 miles15
Suttle4.7 miles15
Dutch Mills5.5 miles15
Sexton (historical)5.9 miles17

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 CanehillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5032247The 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 76520. 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.