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Hunt, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Magnolia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71753. It stands on Chaffin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Macedonia quadrangle.

Hunt within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

74 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Hunt between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,544 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning16
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined31 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hunt: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunt in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 flash flood. 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
September 2025Flash FloodHunt-High water covered Columbia 281 near Highway 371.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Harmony2.5 miles15
Rocky Mound2.6 miles15
Philadelphia2.9 miles15
Macedonia2.9 miles15
Sharman3.0 miles14
Smithland4.0 miles14
Dodson4.4 miles15
Bussey5.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57959. 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.