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Fourmile Hill, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Gray Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72143. The Survey maps it on the Letona quadrangle.

Fourmile Hill within White County

On record in Fourmile Hill

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

53 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Fourmile Hill between 1997 and 2020, burning about 661 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2012Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Fourmile Hill: 6 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Aydelott MineManganeseUnknown
Searcy Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unk Gravel Pits 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
White Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fourmile Hill in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
May 2013Thunderstorm WindFourmile Hill$50,000Numerous large trees were blown down. A few of the trees landed on houses or mobile homes. A couple of houses had wind damage to their roofs.
August 2013Flash FloodFourmile Hill$10,000Numerous streets had to be barricaded in Searcy. In the 2 hours from 10 PM to Midnight CDT, 3.83 inches of rain fell at the Searcy airport. This total included 0.42 inch from 10:21 to 10:30 PM CDT, 0.47 inch from 10:30 to 10:39 PM, 0.53 inch from 10:39 to 10:48 PM, 0.43 inch from 10:48 to 10:56 PM, and 0.97 inch from 10:56 to 11:14 PM.
April 2013LightningFourmile Hill$10,000Lightning started a fire in the attic of a house.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindFourmile Hill-Trees were down on Smith Road off of Arkansas Highway 16.

Every storm recorded in White 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
Bee Rock2.1 miles11
Searcy3.3 miles11
Crosby3.4 miles9
Albion3.7 miles9
Holly Springs4.6 miles11
Smyrna4.8 miles9
Short (historical)5.0 miles11
Plainview5.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76968. 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.