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Hog Jaw, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71961. It stands on Big Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oden quadrangle. It stands 784 feet above sea level.

Hog Jaw within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Hog Jaw between 1992 and 2018, burning about 524 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 22 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
Arson/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning10
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
31 August 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOuachita National ForestCHASEWOOD
30 August 1997Debris and open burning7.5 acresOuachita National ForestSIMS
28 August 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresOuachita National Forestnot named
26 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOuachita National ForestPLACER
25 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreOuachita National ForestGROVER
2 August 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2011Natural6.5 acresOuachita National ForestROCKHOUSE MOUNTAIN
12 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Hog Jaw: 5 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz, Barium-Barite. 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
Hoyt-Williams ProspectBarium-BariteUnknown
Magic Presance MineQuartzPast Producer1986, 1987
Mcgrew MineQuartzProducer1986, 1988
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hog Jaw in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 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
January 2013Flash FloodHog Jaw$5,000Creeks overflowed their banks.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindHog Jaw-Trees were reported down at Goss Rd. and Ridge Rd. south of Pencil Bluff.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Oden1.7 miles15
Whitetown2.2 miles15
Pencil Bluff2.4 miles15
Gaston3.6 miles15
Huddleston4.8 miles15
Mauldin4.8 miles15
Chasewood Landing5.0 miles15
Sims5.4 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q5876992The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 72030. 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.