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Driftwood, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Morgan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72469. It stands on Morgan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Strawberry quadrangle.

Driftwood within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Driftwood between 1997 and 2020, burning about 258 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
25 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1998Arson/incendiarism32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 April 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 April 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 April 2003Debris and open burning25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 April 2003Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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 Driftwood: 3 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, 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
Fannie Richey PlaceClayUnknown
Hoppe MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Clifton E.Cook PropertyIronUnknown
J.B.ButlerZincPast Producer
Raney MineZincPast Producer
UnkIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Driftwood in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindDriftwood-Some trees were down.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Lynn2.5 miles9
Old Martin Mill Place3.6 miles10
Strawberry3.7 miles11
Saffell4.1 miles11
Eaton5.1 miles13
Jesup5.5 miles9
Strangers Home7.4 miles10
Broom (historical)7.8 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 48604. 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.