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Green Tree, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Choctaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72031. It lies near Black Ward Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Clinton quadrangle.

Green Tree within Van Buren County

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

66 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Green Tree between 1998 and 2020, burning about 681 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural1
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
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Green Tree: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green Tree in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2016: 1 lightning, 1 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
May 2008LightningGreen Tree$20,000Lightning struck a house on the Sills Peninsula at Greers Ferry Lake. The ensuing fire destroyed the house.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGreen Tree-Two trees were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Bloomington (historical)1.4 miles16
East Mountain (historical)1.7 miles12
Choctaw Pines2.1 miles16
Palisades2.7 miles16
Choctaw3.1 miles15
Morganton3.8 miles12
Bee Branch4.6 miles12
Sulphur Springs4.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 68668. 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.