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Fontaine, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Crowley's Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72416. The Survey maps it on the Walnut Ridge SE quadrangle. It stands 262 feet above sea level.

Fontaine within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fontaine between 2003 and 2018, burning about 96 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
15 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 November 2016Debris and open burning21 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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 Fontaine: 1 unknown. 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, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fontaine in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 5 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1997Tornado (F3)Fontaine1 killed, 5 hurt, $500,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Walnut Corner3.4 miles14
Lorado5.1 miles10
Light5.9 miles14
Ebenezer7.1 miles14
Faulknerville7.9 miles14
Walcott8.1 miles14
Finch9.9 miles14
Stanford10.4 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on FontaineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5465094The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76944. 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.