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Green Ridge, Arkansas

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 9. It lies in ZIP code area 72958. It stands on Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waldron quadrangle.

Green Ridge within Scott County

On record in Green Ridge

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Green Ridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 682 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 17 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOuachita National ForestSKIDDER
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresOuachita National ForestBEE MTN.
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green Ridge in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGreen Ridge$15,000Several outbuildings and a barn were damaged near the Tate community.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindGreen Ridge$5,000Trees were blown down on Arkansas 80.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindGreen Ridge-Trees and power lines were blown down near the intersection of Mount Pleasant Rd. and Arkansas Hwy 80.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindGreen Ridge-no account filed
April 2011HailGreen Ridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Lone Elm1.3 miles31
Pleasant Valley1.8 miles31
Waldron4.0 miles31
Colburn Spring (historical)4.6 miles31
The Pines4.6 miles31
Cardiff5.2 miles16
Anderson5.2 miles31
Pleasant Hill5.5 miles31

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 Green RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65122762The 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 66290. 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.