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Dryfork, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Southeast Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72740. It stands on Tan Yard Branch. The Survey maps it on the Osage quadrangle.

Dryfork within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Dryfork between 1998 and 2020, burning about 593 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
3 August 2012Natural8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2012Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2012Smokingunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2001Debris and open burning13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 April 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll 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 Dryfork: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dryfork in 1 storm report in 2019: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019Flash FloodDryfork-A portion of Highway 412 was flooded and closed in both directions east of Marble.

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Gobbler3.0 miles13
Dean3.6 miles13
Rudd4.2 miles13
Wolf Pen (historical)4.6 miles13
Osage4.9 miles13
Metalton5.3 miles13
Cave Spring (historical)5.7 miles13
Conner6.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76826. 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.