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Haroldton, Arkansas

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1987. It stands in District 7. It lies in ZIP code area 72921. The Survey maps it on the Barling quadrangle.

Haroldton within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 25 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

40 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Haroldton between 1997 and 2020, burning about 534 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Arson/incendiarism50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2011Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenance112 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2010Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haroldton in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 tornado. 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 2019Tornado (EF0)Haroldton-This is the second segment of a two-segment tornado. In Crawford County, this tornado snapped large tree limbs as it crossed the Arkansas River and moved ashore. Large tree limbs were also snapped as it crossed Highway 59, and then Gun Club Road. The tornado dissipated north of Gun Club Road over open country. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 75 to 80 mph.

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
New Haroldton1.1 miles25
Catcher3.2 miles28
Cross Lanes3.5 miles22
Wright Town3.6 miles28
Westville4.0 miles28
Oak Grove4.4 miles28
New Town4.9 miles22
Kibler4.9 miles22

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.

Wikidata item Q122543011The 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 57050. 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.