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Corley, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Mountain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72855. It lies near Flattop Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Blue Mountain quadrangle.

Corley within Logan County

On record in Corley

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 6 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Corley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 580 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 20 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/incendiarism20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2

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 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2006Debris and open burning9.4 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsDELTIC FIRE
4 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBRAMLET CAMP FIRE
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBIG CARTER
26 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWICKED
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsRED BENCH
12 September 1996Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsJUNK YARD
11 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsPOWERLINE

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 Corley: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corley in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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
January 2020Tornado (EF2)Corley$500,000The tornado touched down east of Cove Lake off of Mt. Salem Road where a barn was destroyed. It continued northeast damaging a mobile home along St. Louis Valley Road. After crossing Arkansas Hwy. 109 just west of Midway, the tornado destroyed a mobile home off of Old Military Rd. As it crossed Hwy. 109 again south of Prairie View, chicken houses were destroyed. Homes lost large sections of their roofs along Parks Rd. southeast of Prairie View, but most of their walls remained. Additional outbuildings and chicken houses were damaged or destroyed east of Scranton. Several trees and power lines were blown down along the path. The tornado lifted just north of the Tokalon community.
April 2011HailCorley-Hail fell at Mount Magazine.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindCorley-A tree was down just south of Cove Lake along Arkansas Highway 309.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindCorley-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
July 2003HailCorley-Hail up to golfball size damaged several vehicles.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCorley-Several large limbs were blown down.
July 2002HailCorley-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
Subiaco5.5 miles20
Sand Ridge6.2 miles20
Spielerville (historical)6.6 miles20
Ellsworth (historical)6.7 miles20
Blue Mountain7.0 miles19
Plainview7.4 miles20
Paris7.4 miles20
Driggs7.5 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 71232. 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.