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Hill Top, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Summit Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72601. It lies near Butler Cove. The Survey maps it on the Osage NE quadrangle.

Hill Top within Boone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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 Hill Top between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,209 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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 1998Equipment and vehicle use25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hill Top in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2017Thunderstorm WindHill Top-Reports were received of a barn and power poles being blown down.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHill Top-Some trees were uprooted 3 S of Red Bank.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindHill Top-A 62 mph wind gust was measured on Gaither Mountain.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindHill Top-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees and large limbs.
June 2012HailHill Top-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Red Bank3.7 miles13
Gaither4.7 miles13
Capps7.3 miles13
Grubb Springs7.3 miles13
Batavia8.0 miles12
Elmwood8.0 miles13
Harrison9.9 miles13
Little Arkansaw10.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 69298. 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.