Ferndale, Arkansas

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

• Doe Branch Post Officelisted 2001

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.

• 1890 USGS Benton quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Benton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1955 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Ferndale quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1964 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Little Rock quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Ferndale quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Ferndale between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,525 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 18 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Northpoint
• Holly Springs
• Banty (historical)
• Pinnacle
• Candlewood
• Hickory Hills

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Ferndale: 4 unknowns, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Nickel, Talc-Soapstone, Nickel, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ferndale in 41 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 5 tornado, 3 flash flood. The reports record 3 deaths and 25 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Pulaski County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57749. 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.