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Huddleston, 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 Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oden quadrangle.

Huddleston 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Huddleston between 1992 and 2017, burning about 653 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 21 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/incendiarism21
Debris and open burning12
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 September 2006Smoking9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2000Smoking12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreOuachita National ForestGROVER
22 August 2006Naturalunder an acreOuachita National ForestLITTEL ROUND MT.
12 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Huddleston: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Quartz. 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
Mcgrew MineQuartzProducer1986, 1988

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huddleston in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2013Tornado (EF2)Huddleston2 hurt, $250,000An EF2 tornado blew the roof off one house and damaged another. A number of outbuildings were damaged or destroyed. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped off. Two people were injured.

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
Pine Ridge3.4 miles15
Oden4.3 miles15
Union Hill4.6 miles15
Hog Jaw4.8 miles15
Redbird (historical)5.0 miles15
Gaston5.3 miles15
Whitetown6.1 miles15
Sulphur Springs6.5 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.

Wikipedia article on HuddlestonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q59848020The 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 74580. 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.