Furlow, Arkansas

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.

• 1940 USGS Lonoke quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Lonoke quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Lonoke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Lonoke SW quadrangle1:24000
• 1982 USGS Lonoke quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Furlow between 2000 and 2015, burning about 346 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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:

• Meto
• Meto (historical)
• Union Valley
• South Bend
• Tower Hill Addition
• Kerr

Every fire recorded in Lonoke County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Furlow in 39 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 17 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 5 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 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.

Every storm recorded in Lonoke County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57781. 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.