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Cooney, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71725. The Survey maps it on the Leola quadrangle.

Cooney within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

75 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Cooney between 1997 and 2019, burning about 815 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 26 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/incendiarism26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural5
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
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionDAL22043159
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2012Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Cooney: 7 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
UnkSilicaUnknown
Dw PhillipSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cooney in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
March 2023Thunderstorm WindCooney-Trees and tree limbs were uprooted and snapped along Hwy. 29 near the Cooney community. Peak wind gusts were estimated around 85 MPH.

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Ivy0.3 miles9
Carthage4.1 miles8
Saline (historical)4.7 miles9
Farindale7.1 miles9
Tulip7.3 miles8
Bunn9.2 miles9
Welchs Shop (historical)10.3 miles8
Wave11.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 56968. 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.