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Crystal Springs, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Hale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71968. The Survey maps it on the Crystal Springs quadrangle. 129 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 666 feet above sea level.

Crystal Springs within Garland County

On record in Crystal Springs

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 4 records

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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Crystal Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 763 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 27 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/incendiarism27
Debris and open burning24
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Fireworks1

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 2011Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresOuachita National ForestHICKORY NUT #3
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOuachita National ForestHICKORY NUT #4
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOuachita National ForestHICKORY NUT #5
29 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresOuachita National ForestBEAR RIFLE RANGE
28 September 2003Arson/incendiarism22 acresOuachita National ForestMEYERS
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Crystal Springs: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz, 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
No NameSilicaPast Producer
Starfire MineQuartzProducer1990
No NameSlate, DimensionPast Producer
No NameSlate, DimensionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crystal Springs in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindCrystal Springs$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
July 1995HailCrystal Springs-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCrystal Springs-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.

Every storm recorded in Garland 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
Crystal Springs Landing2.2 miles15
Maddox2.7 miles8
Bear3.4 miles15
Peak3.9 miles7
Meyers4.4 miles8
Royal5.1 miles13
Chandler5.6 miles8
Sunshine6.2 miles8

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 Crystal SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5191367The 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 76725. 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.