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Gin City, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Roane Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71826. The Survey maps it on the Bradley quadrangle.

Gin City within Lafayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

65 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Gin City between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,450 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 22 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
Arson/incendiarism22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning15
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gin City: 2 past producers. 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, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gin City in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 5 flash flood, 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2009Thunderstorm WindGin City$5,000A trailer was overturned near the community of Gin City, Arkansas.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindGin City$5,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindGin City$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew the windows out of a convenience store and damaged a barn.
March 2024Flash FloodGin City-A high water rescue was needed for a stranded motorist on Highway 160 near Gin City.
April 2023HailGin City-Penny size hail fell just northwest of Bradley.
March 2016Flash FloodGin City-County Road 62 east of Highway 360 is flooded and closed.
March 2016Flash FloodGin City-Highway 360 in the Gin City community was flooded and closed.
April 2016Flash FloodGin City-County Road 360 was underwater about 6 miles west of Highway 29.
April 2016Flash FloodGin City-Several homes were flooded in the Gin City community west of Bradley.
May 1994HailGin City-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees.
April 2009HailGin City-no account filed
May 1994HailGin City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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 Hill2.1 miles17
Bradley3.7 miles17
Kizer4.3 miles17
Pleasant Valley4.8 miles15
Grants4.9 miles15
Canale5.6 miles15
Burton Mill6.6 miles15
Canfield7.1 miles15

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 Gin CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18326175The 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 57818. 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.