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Hill Creek, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Steele Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72127. The Survey maps it on the Menifee quadrangle.

Hill Creek within Conway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

95 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Hill Creek between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,305 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2004Debris and open burning15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Debris and open burning16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conway County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hill Creek: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Conway County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hill Creek in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 hail. 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
March 2006HailHill Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Conway 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
Mount Olive3.5 miles17
Plumerville3.7 miles17
Overcup4.0 miles17
Cypress Valley4.1 miles17
Solgohachia4.3 miles17
Clebb (historical)4.5 miles17
Springfield5.1 miles16
Bethlehem5.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57058. 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.