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Chismville, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Washburn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72943. It lies near Fox Valley. The Survey maps it on the Booneville quadrangle. It stands 499 feet above sea level.

Chismville within Logan County

On record in Chismville

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

13 surveys from 22 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

91 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Chismville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 734 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2

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 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2004Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chismville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Dixie Stone CoFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chismville in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
December 2012HailChismville-Quarter to half dollar size hail fell.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindChismville-Several large tree limbs were knocked down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindChismville-Thunderstorm winds downed a number of trees in Chismville and surrounding areas.
April 2023HailChismville-no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindChismville-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindChismville-no account filed
October 1993HailChismville-no account filed

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
Brownsville1.5 miles22
Cauthron5.0 miles22
Booneville5.4 miles22
Glendale5.7 miles23
Ratcliff7.0 miles19
Caulksville7.1 miles19
Magazine8.4 miles22
Barber8.6 miles23

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 ChismvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5102133The 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 56959. 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.