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Coin, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Northeast Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72638. It lies near Racetrack Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Alpena quadrangle.

Coin within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 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

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Coin between 1997 and 2020, burning about 233 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 July 2012Debris and open burning40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 1997Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 April 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 March 2011Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 March 2012Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Coin: 4 producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Strontium. 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
Orval K Hawkin PropertyStrontiumProspect
R & R Gravel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
R&R Gravel PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Osage PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R & R Quarry No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coin in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2015Thunderstorm WindCoin-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees.
April 2005HailCoin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Nunnally (historical)1.3 miles12
Hough1.7 miles12
Farewell4.4 miles12
Denver4.6 miles12
Green Forest4.7 miles12
New Town (historical)4.7 miles12
Carrollton4.9 miles12
Norton (historical)5.6 miles12

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 CoinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18326198The 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 57565. 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.