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Hillsboro, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Johnson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71765. The Survey maps it on the Urbana quadrangle.

Hillsboro within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

62 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Hillsboro between 1998 and 2020, burning about 545 acres in total. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning17
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined48 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Natural7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2011Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsboro in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2016: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2015Thunderstorm WindHillsboro$10,000A tree fell on a vehicle southeast of El Dorado, Arkansas.
March 2016HailHillsboro-Quarter size hail fell southeast of El Dorado.
March 2011HailHillsboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Urbana3.2 miles16
Payne3.6 miles16
Pleasant Grove3.9 miles18
Kinard4.1 miles18
Lawson4.3 miles16
Sandy Bend4.9 miles16
Nick Springs5.5 miles18
Gardner6.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77185. 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.