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Doniphan, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Dogwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72082. It stands on Black Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kensett quadrangle.

Doniphan within White County

On record in Doniphan

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

49 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Doniphan between 1997 and 2020, burning about 495 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2010Arson/incendiarism75 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionWHI17454828

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Doniphan: 13 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Clay. 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
UnkClayPast Producer
MidwestStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Searcy Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this place

8 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Doniphan in 8 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022Thunderstorm WindDoniphan$10,000Pictures were emailed to the office showing multiple trees down around Cloverdale Blvd. One tree that fell caused minor damage to a house.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindDoniphan$5,000Several trees were blown down along U.S. Highway 67/167.
March 2023FloodDoniphan-Heavy rain brought flooding to the Little Red River at Judsonia in late March.
March 2023FloodDoniphan-Heavy rain brought flooding to the Little Red River at Judsonia in early March.
April 2022HailDoniphan-This was an mPING report.
April 2022HailDoniphan-This was an mPING report. Corrected time.
April 2022HailDoniphan-This was an mPING report.
November 2017HailDoniphan-The public reported nickel sized hail at the Starbucks on the east side of Searcy.

Every storm recorded in White 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
Kensett1.1 miles14
Judsonia2.2 miles11
Searcy3.5 miles11
West Point4.1 miles13
Bee Rock4.1 miles11
Higginson4.3 miles14
Plainview4.5 miles11
Midway4.5 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57674. 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.