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Greenfield, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72432. The Survey maps it on the Greenfield quadrangle.

Greenfield within Poinsett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Greenfield between 1998 and 2020, burning about 483 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
25 September 1999Smoking13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2000Arson/incendiarism35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2000Arson/incendiarism26 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2009Arson/incendiarism25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 March 2006Debris and open burning11 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 March 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 March 1998Debris and open burning80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Poinsett County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Greenfield: 7 unknowns. 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, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Poinsett County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenfield in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 5 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 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
October 2009Flash FloodGreenfield$122,000Crane Farm Road was flooded when water was flowing over the Big Creek bridge.
September 2009Flash FloodGreenfield$30,000Heavy rain produced flash flooding near the Craighead/Poinsett County Line. Several homes had six inches of standing water inside them.
October 2007Flash FloodGreenfield$5,000Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Greenfield. Water came into a building at the Delta and Pineland Company. In addition, Highway 1 was flooded with water.
April 2009Flash FloodGreenfield$1,000Heavy rain estimated between 4 and 4 1/2 inches fell in Greenfield overnight. The observer's driveway was flooded and impassable.
April 1998Tornado (F0)Greenfield$1,000A tornado briefly touched down in Greenfield knocking down a few trees.
July 1997HailGreenfield$10no account filed
October 2014Thunderstorm WindGreenfield-Straight line winds damaged the wall and roof of a metal building housing a discount store in northern portions of Harrisburg. Debris from the building broke windows in another building located to the immediate north. A tree approximately one quarter mile northeast of the building was snapped. Widespread trees were uprooted in Greenfield. There were also reports of minor roof damage in Greenfield. There were several trees and power lines knocked down further east in Truman.
December 2013Flash FloodGreenfield-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Northern Poinsett County. Senteney Road was flooded for nearly a mile long stretch.

Every storm recorded in Poinsett 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
Gaulett1.3 miles9
Buffalolick (historical)2.7 miles9
Harrisburg4.7 miles9
Mulligan4.9 miles9
Walnut Grove Corner5.0 miles9
Whitaker5.7 miles9
Huskey6.1 miles9
Shady Grove6.5 miles9

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 GreenfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5603923The 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 77071. 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.