Hazel Valley, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Reed Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72701. It stands on Peach Branch. The Survey maps it on the Delaney quadrangle. It stands 1,562 feet above sea level.

Hazel Valley within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1943 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1946 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Delaney quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Fly Gap Mountain quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

22 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Hazel Valley between 1999 and 2017, burning about 397 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
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	27 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2012	Natural	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 April 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	WAS14482574
5 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	205 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	BRANNON
22 April 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	31 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 April 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	16 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 March 2006	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	PENITENTIARY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Porters Store (historical)	0.6 miles	15
Wyola	3.1 miles	15
Arnett	3.4 miles	15
Sunset	3.7 miles	15
Carter (historical)	5.5 miles	15
Brentwood	6.1 miles	15
Durham	6.1 miles	15
Hicks	6.1 miles	15

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 Hazel Valley	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5688019	The 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 71952. 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.