Dixie, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cotton Plant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72006. The Survey maps it on the Cotton Plant quadrangle.

Dixie within Woodruff County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1935 USGS Gregory quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Gregory quadrangle1:62500
1968 USGS Cotton Plant quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1972 USGS Gregory quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Dixie between 1992 and 2005, burning about 170 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning	4
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
31 May 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	DEAD SNAG
22 April 1996	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	DIXIE
31 March 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 February 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	DIXIE
19 February 2004	Smoking	10 acres	Cache River National Wildlife Refuge	AUGUSTA CAMP
9 November 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	DIXIETNC
29 October 2000	Debris and open burning	156 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	HOWELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodruff 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 Dixie: 1 past producer. None of them 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Woodruff County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dixie in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Dixie	$20,000	Trees and power poles were blown down.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Dixie	$10,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
February 2018	Flash Flood	Dixie	-	Highway 33 South closed north of Dixie due to high water.
August 2009	Flood	Dixie	-	Heavy rainfall combined with a high Cache River stage flooded more than 2000 acres of soybeans in Woodruff County. The crops flooded were a total loss. When the gage on the Cache River near Cotton Plant exceeded 17 feet, cropland began to flood. The eventual crest was 18.40 feet on the 5th of the month, putting almost a foot and a half of water on the crops. One farmer reported a loss of about 1000 acres. Additional acres were lost from the river all the way across Arkansas Highway 33 near the Dixie community.
April 2004	Hail	Dixie	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodruff 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cow Mound (historical)	1.8 miles	13
Kramer (historical)	2.3 miles	13
McClelland	3.0 miles	13
Daggett	3.7 miles	13
Maberry	4.3 miles	13
Little Dixie	4.8 miles	13
Shady Grove	4.9 miles	13
Gregory	5.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57661. 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.