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Diamondhead, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fenter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71913. It stands on Slunger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Catherine quadrangle.

Diamondhead within Hot Spring County

On record in Diamondhead

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

110 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Diamondhead between 1997 and 2020, burning about 498 acres in total. 6 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 burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism17
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1998Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Diamondhead: 7 producers, 5 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Vanadium, Niobium (Columbium), Barium-Barite, Titanium. 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
(Facility) Jones Mills SmelterAluminumPlant
Arkansas Power and Light Company PropertyFluorine-Fluorite, PyritePast Producer
Kimsey ProspectNiobium (Columbium), MolybdenumProducerBrookite, Molybdenite
Magnet Cove Mica DepositMicaUnknown
No NameClayPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nichols & Campbell ProspectTitaniumProspect
Titanium Alloy Co.TitaniumPast Producer
Chamberlain CreekBarium-BariteProducer
Lecroy FarmNiobium (Columbium)Unknown

Every working recorded in Hot Spring County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Diamondhead in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2008Tornado (EF1)Diamondhead$100,000This tornado exited Garland County and moved into Hot Spring County in the Diamondhead area. The tornado blew down hundreds of trees.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindDiamondhead$20,000Power lines were knocked down due to falling trees. Trees were down on Arkansas Highway 171, and power lines were knocked down due to falling trees in Malvern.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindDiamondhead-Trees were blown down at Lake Catherine State Park.
May 2010HailDiamondhead-no account filed
April 2009HailDiamondhead-no account filed
March 2008HailDiamondhead-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hot Spring 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
Shorewood Hills2.6 miles12
Cove Creek (historical)2.7 miles12
Jones Mills3.1 miles12
Morning Star5.1 miles14
Magnet Cove5.4 miles13
Oak Grove6.7 miles11
Butterfield7.0 miles13
Rockport7.3 miles13

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 DiamondheadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q140199012The 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 57654. 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.