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Cross Roads, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Calvert Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72150. The Survey maps it on the Millerville quadrangle.

Cross Roads within Grant 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

260 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 260 fires within 5 miles of Cross Roads between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,288 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 63 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 burning123
Arson/incendiarism63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural2
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 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Cross Roads: 49 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 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
Hyman Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
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 Grant County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cross Roads in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
October 2009Thunderstorm WindCross Roads$5,000Large trees were knocked down.
June 2023HailCross Roads-Quarter sized hail fell near the community of Cross Roads.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Cross Roads-A weak tornado in northeast Dallas County moved into Grant County about 7.8 miles southwest of Cross Roads. The tornado tracked eastward across the southern part of Grant County, downing numerous trees. The tornado began moving northeastward as it tracked into Jefferson County.
April 2007HailCross Roads-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCross Roads-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCross Roads-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCross Roads-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Deer Creek1.3 miles9
Cherry Grove (historical)1.9 miles9
Slabtown2.9 miles9
Millerville3.0 miles9
Ain3.8 miles9
Sheridan5.7 miles9
Turin (historical)5.9 miles9
Dogwood6.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 56977. 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.