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Clow, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mine Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71855. The Survey maps it on the Nashville quadrangle.

Clow within Hempstead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

42 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Clow between 1997 and 2020, burning about 386 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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 burning15
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
6 September 1997Debris and open burning12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 2008Natural30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hempstead County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Clow: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Iron. 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
Roy Leslie FarmIronPast Producer
No NameClayPast Producer
Sample SiteClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hempstead County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clow in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 1994Thunderstorm WindClow$50,000Thunderstorm winds damaged a barn and blew down several trees.
April 2025Flash FloodClow-Widespread flooding across Hempstead County, with multiple roads covered in high water and closed, with others washed out. Flash flooding damaged the Ozan Creek Bridge on Hempstead Road 26.
June 1994HailClow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hempstead 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
Bellair0.7 miles14
Compton (historical)3.0 miles14
Ozan4.1 miles13
Yancy4.3 miles14
Doyle4.5 miles14
Belton (historical)5.6 miles14
Bingen6.0 miles14
Academy (historical)6.5 miles13

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 ClowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5136008The 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 57559. 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.