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Center Grove, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72150. The Survey maps it on the Prague quadrangle.

Center Grove within Grant County

On record in Center Grove

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

168 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Center Grove between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,548 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 49 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 burning74
Arson/incendiarism49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Smoking6
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use2
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 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2016Arson/incendiarism25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Smoking3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Center Grove: 7 unknowns. 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, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center Grove in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2020: 1 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
January 2020Thunderstorm WindCenter Grove$20,000A spotter located along Hwy 270 between Sheridan and White Hall reported strong winds threw an anchored carport against their home.
February 2018Flash FloodCenter Grove-Highway 46 was closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Junet1.5 miles9
Ebb1.6 miles9
Prague2.3 miles9
Clear Lake3.9 miles14
Amber (historical)5.0 miles12
Sheridan5.8 miles9
Darysaw (historical)6.2 miles10
Obin (historical)6.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 47632. 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.