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Hilo, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 7. It lies in ZIP code area 71651. The Survey maps it on the Moro Bay quadrangle.

Hilo within Bradley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

59 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Hilo between 2001 and 2020, burning about 992 acres in total. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Natural13
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use7

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
5 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Natural310 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMORO BAY
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bradley County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hilo: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bradley County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hilo in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 1 flash flood, 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 2021Thunderstorm WindHilo-A report was received of trees down along Highway 63.
June 2018Flash FloodHilo-Several county roads were underwater.

Every storm recorded in Bradley 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
Pirlte (historical)3.0 miles18
Marsden3.5 miles18
Jersey5.1 miles17
Moro Bay5.6 miles17
Gravelridge6.5 miles18
Ingalls6.6 miles18
Sturgis (historical)7.5 miles18
Hermitage7.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57927. 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.