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Gravel Hill, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Cadron Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72136. It lies near Walker Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Sidon quadrangle.

Gravel Hill within White County

On record in Gravel 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

5 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

57 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Gravel Hill between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,080 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking1

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
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Smoking95 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2007Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2006Debris and open burning70 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gravel Hill: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Flagstone, 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
Dugout QuarryFlagstoneProducer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gravel Hill in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2017Flash FloodGravel Hill$50,000A bridge was washed out on Foster Rd.
February 2018FloodGravel Hill-Four homes in the Floyd-Romance Community off Highway 31 and Gravel Hill Road are being evacuated. Lake Barnett has risen and has endangered homes in the area.
January 2012HailGravel Hill-Quarter to half dollar size hail fell.
March 2010HailGravel Hill-no account filed

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
Joy2.3 miles9
Turnip (historical)4.1 miles10
Harmony4.1 miles10
Romance4.2 miles11
Floyd4.7 miles10
Hart4.7 miles10
Center Hill4.9 miles9
Sidon6.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 81863. 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.