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Fox, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72051. It lies near Ives Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Fox quadrangle. 237 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,414 feet above sea level.

Fox within Stone County

On record in Fox

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

9 surveys from 15 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

56 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Fox between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,628 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
29 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 July 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2011Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 June 2005Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fox in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 5 deaths 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
April 1996Tornado (F4)Fox5 killed, 5 hurt, $2,500,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindFox$100,000Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a chicken house at Fox.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindFox-A report from a truck driver driving along Hwy. 263 through Fox witnessed trees being blown down along the highway in the town of Fox.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindFox-Trees were reported down.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindFox-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs.
April 2023HailFox-no account filed
April 2007HailFox-no account filed
March 2003HailFox-no account filed
July 2001HailFox-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFox-no account filed
October 1995HailFox-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
Mozart3.2 miles15
Lydalisk3.8 miles17
Rushing4.3 miles17
Turkey Creek5.0 miles14
Pekin (historical)5.0 miles17
Flag5.5 miles15
Timbo5.6 miles15
Arlberg6.3 miles16

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 FoxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5476505The 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 76969. 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.

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.