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Hickeytown, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Howell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72847. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Knoxville quadrangle.

Hickeytown within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

60 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Hickeytown between 1997 and 2020, burning about 281 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 8 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2004Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Hickeytown: 25 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Clay. 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
R. L. Bewley TractClayProspect
UnkStonePast Producer
UnknownStoneUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hickeytown in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2014Thunderstorm WindHickeytown$25,000Falling trees damaged a couple of houses in the Piney Bay area.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindHickeytown$1,000A shop roof was damaged at Piney Bay.
April 2022Funnel CloudHickeytown-A Johnson county Deputy reported a funnel cloud over Piney Bay.
April 2021Flash FloodHickeytown-Water was reported to be over portions of Hwy. 359.
August 2010HailHickeytown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Garrett2.6 miles19
Knoxville3.2 miles19
Knoxville Junction3.9 miles20
Piney4.2 miles19
Lamar4.8 miles20
Bend5.4 miles20
Holman5.5 miles19
Lutherville5.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57910. 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.