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Center Valley, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in District 7. It lies in ZIP code area 72802. The Survey maps it on the Russellville East quadrangle. It stands 463 feet above sea level.

Center Valley within Pope County

On record in Center Valley

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 20 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

84 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Center Valley between 1997 and 2020, burning about 359 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2

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 1998Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Center Valley: 12 unknowns, 5 producers, 4 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay. 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
BerniceClayPast Producer
UnknownStoneUnknown
UnknownStoneUnknown
UnknownStoneUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pope County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pope County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pope 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
Baker Creek (historical)2.6 miles19
Shiloh2.8 miles19
Taral2.9 miles20
Russellville4.4 miles19
Ouitaville4.9 miles19
Dover5.2 miles20
Moreland5.2 miles17
Bethel5.7 miles19

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 Center ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14680809The 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 56954. 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.