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Carrollton, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Southeast Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72611. It stands on Bobo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alpena quadrangle.

Carrollton within Carroll County

On record in Carrollton

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

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

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Carrollton between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,304 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Natural1
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
7 August 2012Natural50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2012Debris and open burning250 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionALPENA
29 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 1997Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 April 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 April 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 April 2004Smoking40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined512 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Carrollton: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Strontium. 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
Orval K Hawkin PropertyStrontiumProspect

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carrollton in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
April 2015Thunderstorm WindCarrollton$25,000Strong thunderstorm wind snapped several trees. A tree was blown down onto a house.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindCarrollton$1,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down power lines and trees.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindCarrollton-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew several trees down.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindCarrollton-Severe thunderstorms moved across northwest Arkansas during the late evening of April 17th into the very early morning of April 18th. The storms produced large hail, damaging winds, and 1 tornado. The tornado touched down 5 miles northeast of Evansville near the top of Starlight Mountain at 2313CST. This F-1 tornado damaged 1 home and destroyed 2 chicken houses along its 1/2 mile length and 75 yard width. Strong thunderstorm winds damaged several buildings in Rogers, including blowing the roof off the National Guard Armory Building. Several large trees were also downed in Rogers. A tree was blown onto a house near Elm Springs, and a large tree was blown onto a trailer in Siloam Springs. Some chicken houses were blown down in Morrow, and numerous trees and power lines were blown down near Cave Springs. Strong thunderstorm winds downed several trees 3 miles north of Spring Valley, and several large tree limbs were blown down in Huntsville and 3 miles north of Carrollton. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 miles an hour 7 miles south of Prairie Grove and 4 miles west of Greenwood, and dime size hail fell at Maysville.
June 2014HailCarrollton-no account filed
April 2007HailCarrollton-no account filed

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
Hough3.9 miles12
Nunnally (historical)4.6 miles12
Coin4.9 miles12
Conner6.7 miles13
Osage7.1 miles13
Delmar7.1 miles13
New Town (historical)7.4 miles12
Rule7.4 miles12

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 CarrolltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4251164The 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 57516. 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.