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Edna, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Batson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72830. It stands on West Fork Horsehead Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hunt quadrangle.

Edna within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Edna between 1992 and 2020, burning about 591 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural1
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
6 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsMAVERICK
28 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use42 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsEAGLE NEST
11 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2011Debris and open burning44 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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 Edna: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
Unk Quarries 2StonePast Producer
Unk Quarries 2StonePast Producer
Unk Quarries 3StonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edna in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
October 2009FloodEdna$25,000A natural gas pipeline was damaged due to debris floating in floodwaters.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindEdna$6,000Trees and powerlines were down as well as some damage to several chicken houses in the area. The path length was 2.1 miles and path width was 50 yards wide.
October 2006Flash FloodEdna-Water was two feet deep in the primitive camp area at Horsehead Lake. Four families who were camping were temporarily trapped by the swift-flowing water. They were uninjured.
April 2020HailEdna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Hunt2.3 miles10
White Oak2.8 miles10
Smeadley (historical)3.5 miles10
Harmony4.1 miles10
Batson4.7 miles10
Oak Grove5.3 miles10
Linville (historical)5.3 miles10
Dale (historical)6.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 71535. 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.