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Dooley, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Garland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71854. The Survey maps it on the Fouke NE quadrangle. It stands 253 feet above sea level.

Dooley within Miller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

59 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Dooley between 1997 and 2019, burning about 720 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use89 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2008Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dooley: 3 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Meyers QySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Miller County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dooley in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
May 2020Tornado (EF1)Dooley$50,000An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 100 mph touched down along Miller County 21 and Miller County 116 where it uprooted trees and snapped the wooden pole of a electrical transmission line. It continued moving northwest and crossed Highway 296, downing large limbs. Before the tornado lifted just north of Highway 296, it ripped off the shingles and destroyed the carport of a single family home.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindDooley$50,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees and damaged several roofs.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindDooley$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and damaged the roof of a chicken barn.
January 1994Thunderstorm WindDooley$500Thunderstorm winds knocked down some tree limbs.
March 2018Flash FloodDooley-High water covered Highway 82 and County Road 21.
March 2016HailDooley-Half dollar size hail fell 6 miles east of Texarkana.
January 1994HailDooley-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some tree limbs.
May 1994HailDooley-Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees and damaged several roofs.
April 1994HailDooley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miller 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
Hervey4.7 miles15
Clear Lake Junction5.0 miles17
Paup5.1 miles17
Homan5.3 miles17
Mandeville5.7 miles15
Artex5.8 miles15
Lakewood Estates6.1 miles15
McKinney6.4 miles15

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 DooleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5297024The 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 56994. 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.