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Driggs, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Driggs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72943. It lies near Barn Hill. The Survey maps it on the Magazine quadrangle.

Driggs within Logan County

On record in Driggs

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

13 surveys from 22 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

69 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Driggs between 1998 and 2020, burning about 305 acres in total. 2 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 burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 1999Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2006Debris and open burning9.4 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsDELTIC FIRE
28 September 2016Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWICKED
26 September 2004Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Driggs: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Garland Cotton Sand & Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Logan County Building Stone CoStone, Crushed/Broken, FlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Driggs in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
November 2018Tornado (EF0)Driggs$25,000The tornado blew down trees, and removed some roofing material from several homes. Some barns and outbuildings were damaged.
February 2018Thunderstorm WindDriggs-Trees and powerlines were reported down in the town of Driggs.
April 2017HailDriggs-Report was relayed by the Franklin County OEM.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindDriggs-Trees down.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindDriggs-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindDriggs-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
June 2003HailDriggs-no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindDriggs-no account filed
February 1997Thunderstorm WindDriggs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Carbon City4.3 miles19
Paris4.4 miles20
Revilee5.2 miles22
Magazine6.2 miles22
Caulksville6.6 miles19
Cauthron6.9 miles22
Gray Rock7.3 miles20
Corley7.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 71418. 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.