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Chapel Hill, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71832. The Survey maps it on the Chapel Hill quadrangle.

Chapel Hill within Sevier 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

68 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Chapel Hill between 1997 and 2020, burning about 568 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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
Arson/incendiarism27
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
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
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTalihina AgencyBIGDADDYSW
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10367
27 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2015Debris and open burning2.5 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sevier 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 Chapel Hill: 19 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Calcium, 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
No NameCalciumPast Producer
Petty ProspectDiatomiteProspect
Rolling Fork Pit & PlantFlagstoneProducer
Dequeen Sand & Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sevier County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chapel Hill in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
February 2023Flash FloodChapel Hill-Flooding reported on several roads near De Queen.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindChapel Hill-Trees were downed in the Dogtown area southwest of De Queen, Arkansas.
October 1993HailChapel Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sevier 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
Process City1.9 miles14
Union2.7 miles14
De Queen2.9 miles14
Oak Grove3.4 miles15
Wade3.5 miles11
Antrey (historical)4.6 miles15
Avon4.8 miles14
West Otis6.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76588. 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.