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Hensley, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Big Rock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72065. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Woodson quadrangle.

Hensley within Pulaski County

On record in Hensley

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

123 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Hensley between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,631 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 40 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 burning44
Arson/incendiarism40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2005Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hensley in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 2 flash flood. 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
October 2014Thunderstorm WindHensley$15,000A tree fell onto a truck on Arkansas 365. There were no injuries.
May 2024HailHensley-Quarter-sized hail fell in the town of Hensley.
June 2019Flash FloodHensley-Water was over the roadway at the intersection of Hensley Rd. and Interstate 530.
April 2016Flash FloodHensley-Water was flowing over a part of Highway 365 in Hensley.
April 2011Funnel CloudHensley-Hensley firefighters reported a funnel cloud descending toward the ground.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindHensley-A number of trees were blown down.
April 2011Funnel CloudHensley-no account filed
February 1998HailHensley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Woodson1.7 miles18
Rottaken4.7 miles18
Bredlow Corner5.9 miles18
Bingham6.6 miles22
Wrightsville6.7 miles18
Wampoo7.3 miles18
Dickey (historical)7.7 miles18
Tafton7.9 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77164. 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.