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Hanover, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72560. It lies near Holt Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mountain View quadrangle.

Hanover within Stone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

41 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Hanover between 2000 and 2020, burning about 368 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
19 September 2000Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2010Arson/incendiarism26 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 April 2003Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 March 2007Debris and open burning9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hanover: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
UnkStoneProducer
Mountain View PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mountain View PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stone County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stone County PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stone County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanover in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2007: 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2007HailHanover-no account filed
April 2007HailHanover-no account filed
March 2003HailHanover-no account filed
April 1996HailHanover-no account filed
October 1996Funnel CloudHanover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
East Richwoods3.0 miles14
West Richwoods3.0 miles14
Luber3.4 miles14
Mountain View4.5 miles14
Turkey Creek5.2 miles14
Parma6.5 miles16
Kahoka (historical)6.9 miles15
Rushing8.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57877. 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.