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Clay, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Big Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72143. The Survey maps it on the Pangburn quadrangle.

Clay within White County

On record in Clay

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

48 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Clay between 1997 and 2020, burning about 617 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
8 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2010Debris and open burning55 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionWHI17514057
20 September 2010Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Clay: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone. 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
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clay in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 1 hail, 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
April 2017Flash FloodClay$5,000Crook Road was flooded and water was in some of the residences.
April 2003HailClay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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
Mountain Home1.4 miles9
Dewey2.2 miles9
Letona3.3 miles9
Pangburn3.4 miles9
Short (historical)3.5 miles11
Holly Springs3.7 miles11
Albion3.7 miles9
Little Red4.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 47811. 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.