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Habberton, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72764. The Survey maps it on the Elkins quadrangle. It stands 1,283 feet above sea level.

Habberton within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Habberton between 1998 and 2013, burning about 122 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 July 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Habberton: 1 past producer. 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

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Habberton in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
May 2022HailHabberton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Beav-O-Rama2.2 miles19
Wyman2.9 miles18
Rochelle Riviera3.2 miles19
Goshen3.3 miles14
Sonora3.5 miles19
Summit (historical)4.0 miles18
Sydenham (historical)4.4 miles18
Blue Springs Village4.6 miles19

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 HabbertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5636653The 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 77099. 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.