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Falcon, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Alabama Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71827. It stands on Knotts Branch. The Survey maps it on the Falcon quadrangle.

Falcon within Nevada County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

95 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Falcon between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,139 acres in total. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural10
Smoking6
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
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2000Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Falcon: 10 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Falcon MineIronProspect
Falcon OperationsIronPast Producer
Johnson & BillingsleyIronPast Producer
UnkIronPast Producer
UnkIronPast Producer
UnkIronPast Producer
UnkIronPast Producer
UnkIronPast Producer
UnkIronPast Producer
UnkIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Nevada County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Falcon in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1999: 2 hail, 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
June 1995Thunderstorm WindFalcon-Thunderstorm winds downed a couple of trees near Waterloo and Falcon.
January 1999HailFalcon-no account filed
June 1994HailFalcon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nevada 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
Sanders3.2 miles13
Mount Pleasant4.3 miles12
Stockton5.6 miles13
Bodcaw6.5 miles15
Delta6.8 miles13
Willisville7.1 miles15
Register (historical)7.9 miles15
Azor8.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57742. 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.