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Carbon City, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Short Mountain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72855. It stands on Gack Creek. The Survey maps it on the Caulksville quadrangle.

Carbon City within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

66 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Carbon City between 1997 and 2018, burning about 314 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2012Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan 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 Carbon City: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Logan County Building Stone CoStone, Crushed/Broken, FlagstonePast Producer
Duffield QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Garland Cotton Sand & Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Logan County New BlaineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carbon City in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2013: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2009Flash FloodCarbon City$450,000Arkansas Highway 10 was flooded between Booneville and the Magazine Bridge. Damage to bridges occurred at Marcelle Phillips Park and Veterans Park in Booneville. An aluminum bridge on Earl Prairie Rd. was washed out. Part of Brewer Rd. washed away and a pipe washed out on Goff Rd. Water rose to a depth of more than 3 feet at a feed store in Booneville, causing merchandise to float around in the store. A hardware store also suffered flood damage. Numerous county roads were flooded, especially in the southern half of the county.
June 2013Flash FloodCarbon City$5,000Water covered some roads in the county.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindCarbon City-A few trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Paris3.3 miles20
Caulksville3.8 miles19
Gray Rock3.9 miles20
Driggs4.3 miles22
Ratcliff4.9 miles19
Roseville5.9 miles19
Union6.8 miles20
Kalamazoo7.1 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122589459The 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 71008. 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.