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Crows, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dyer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72019. The Survey maps it on the Lonsdale quadrangle. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Crows within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

107 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Crows between 1997 and 2020, burning about 700 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 31 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism31
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined33 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline 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 Crows: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone. 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
Congo PitTalc-SoapstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crows in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 5 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
September 2012Thunderstorm WindCrows$5,000Trees were blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCrows$5,000Trees were blown down along Arkansas Highway 5.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCrows$3,000EMS reported several trees were blown down along Arkansas Highway 5 east of Owensville.
March 2023HailCrows-Three quarter inch hail was reported by the public via mPING.
April 2022HailCrows-One inch hail fell on Hwy. 5 between Hwy. 298 and Crow Station.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCrows-Severe thunderstorms blew trees down around the highway 5 and 9 intersection.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindCrows-Strong winds brought trees down along Arkansas Highway 5 South.
December 2002Tornado (F0)Crows-A weak tornado touched down briefly in the vicinity of Crows. The only damage noted were several trees that were twisted and broken off several feet above the ground along a small river that runs along Highway 9 just north of Crows. There were at least 2 people that witnessed the tornado.
April 2011HailCrows-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Rubicon1.2 miles15
Alum (historical)2.6 miles19
Owensville2.8 miles15
Nance4.6 miles15
Kentucky5.7 miles19
Slocomb (historical)5.9 miles19
Klondike (historical)6.2 miles19
Grape6.3 miles19

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 CrowsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5189578The 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 48236. 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.