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Hayley, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bullard Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72040. The Survey maps it on the Hickory Plains quadrangle.

Hayley within Prairie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 15 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

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hayley between 1999 and 2017, burning about 351 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 August 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 March 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 December 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 October 2000Debris and open burning60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 October 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined238 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 January 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hayley in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 2008Thunderstorm WindHayley$50,000A shop was destroyed. A mobile home was overturned and the roof was blown off of another mobile home. A couple of trees and some limbs were down.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindHayley$5,000Trees were blown down.
March 2023Tornado (EF1)Hayley-This tornado started in a field southwest of the intersection of|West Crossroads Road and Arkansas Highway 86, snapping a power pole.|The tornado then passed over a barn, lifting the roof off that|barn. The tornado then moved north over Bell Road, removing some|shingles off a house before lifting shortly afterwards. The tornado was rated an EF1 with estimated maximum winds of 90 mph.

Every storm recorded in Prairie 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
Mooresville (historical)2.3 miles13
Hickory Plains4.4 miles15
Fourmile Corner5.0 miles16
Crossroad5.5 miles15
Willard (historical)5.8 miles12
Stineville (historical)5.9 miles12
Enarc (historical)6.0 miles12
Jasmine6.0 miles12

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 Q122552598The 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 57052. 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.