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Hasty, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hasty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72640. The Survey maps it on the Hasty quadrangle. It stands 1,227 feet above sea level.

Hasty within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Hasty between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,907 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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 burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism35
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
3 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 June 2013Fireworksunder an acreBuffalo National RiverCARVER GUARDRAIL
19 June 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Hasty: 7 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc. 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
Bonanza MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Ragged BreechesZinc, LeadPast Producer
A-ProspectLead, ZincPast Producer
BierbaumLeadPast Producer
ConfederateLead, ZincPast Producer
Little Buffalo RiverZincPast Producer
Spier MineZincPast Producer
Tom Hill PropertyZincOccurrence

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hasty in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 6 hail, 5 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
April 2026HailHasty-Hen egg sized hail fell near Hasty.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindHasty-A few large trees were downed.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindHasty-Trees and power lines were blown down. Multiple trees were down on the road between Hasty and Carver.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindHasty-Trees and power lines were downed.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindHasty-Trees were down in Hasty.
March 2012HailHasty-Quarter size hail covered the ground.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHasty-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs.
March 2017HailHasty-no account filed
July 2008HailHasty-no account filed
March 2006HailHasty-no account filed
April 2006HailHasty-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Wells Creek (historical)2.0 miles13
Carver2.0 miles14
Piercetown3.6 miles14
Yardelle4.3 miles13
Flatwoods4.6 miles13
Little Buffalo (historical)4.7 miles13
Vendor4.9 miles14
Flat5.0 miles20

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 HastyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14680884The 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 77142. 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.