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Dutton, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in South Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72760. It stands on East Prong White River. The Survey maps it on the Pettigrew quadrangle.

Dutton within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Dutton between 1995 and 2016, burning about 1,380 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/incendiarism8
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
2 September 2011Arson/incendiarism4.9 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsTIMS
10 September 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 May 2014Arson/incendiarism80 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsDUTTON
4 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMAD18093179
6 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2000Debris and open burning39 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsPETTIGREW
15 April 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dutton in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 hail. 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 2023HailDutton$15,000Ping pong ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Pettigrew2.4 miles9
Saint Paul3.8 miles18
Boston5.2 miles9
Brashears5.4 miles18
Jordan (historical)5.9 miles8
Combs7.6 miles18
Witter8.4 miles8
Venus8.9 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 71482. 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.

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.