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Crossroads, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Township 2. It lies in ZIP code area 72131. It lies near Pryor Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Quitman quadrangle.

Crossroads within Cleburne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

58 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Crossroads between 1997 and 2020, burning about 683 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 17 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 burning18
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
6 September 2010Smoking10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Natural10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne 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 Crossroads: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Hellcat Heights Quarry DivisionStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cleburne County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crossroads in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 12 injuries. 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
May 2008Tornado (EF2)Crossroads12 hurt, $32,000,000This tornado exited Van Buren County, east-northeast of Morganton, and moved into Cleburne County, northwest of Crossroads. Across the county, 194 homes received damage. This included 27 houses and five mobile homes destroyed, 66 homes with major damage, and 96 homes with minor damage. A dog kennel, two chicken houses, and a beauty shop were destroyed. Minor damage was done to two chicken houses, a rock quarry, a flea market, a boat storage facility, a beauty shop, a fire department, a print shop, and a community ball park. At least 19 boats and party barges sank in Greers Ferry Lake. Removal of the vessels and clean-up of the spilled fuel and fluids continued well into June. About 6800 homes and businesses lost power. In addition to power lines and poles being blown down, one transmission line and one substation were damaged. Approximately 250 dogs and puppies were killed, along with two horses, and hundreds of chickens.
March 2017Tornado (EF1)Crossroads$20,000Trees were blown down, uprooted, or snapped along the path of the tornado. A home had some windows blown out, and some roof damage. Several outbuildings were damaged.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCrossroads-Numerous trees were blown down across Cleburne county and many large limbs and trees were blocking roads.
January 2002HailCrossroads-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cleburne 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
Pearson4.9 miles11
South Shore Park5.3 miles11
Quitman5.6 miles11
Miller (historical)5.7 miles16
Whispering Springs6.2 miles15
Shiloh (historical)6.3 miles15
Driftwood Shores6.4 miles11
Higden7.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57613. 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.