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Hurricane Grove, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71957. It stands on Rogers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Reed Mountain quadrangle.

Hurricane Grove 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

83 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Hurricane Grove between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,504 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 18 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
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Debris and open burning23 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOuachita National Forest44410 ROAD
24 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOuachita National ForestFAIR GROUND ROAD
21 September 2006Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Smoking1.0 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

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Hurricane Grove: 7 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Quartz, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Fisher Mountain TractQuartz, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer1946
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Burch Lode MineQuartzProducer1982
Crystal Pyramid MineQuartzProducer1986, 1987
Fiddler's Ridge Crystal MineQuartzProducer1986, 1989
Fisher Mountain MineQuartzProducer1940
Forgotten Aye MineQuartzPast Producer1986
Leatherhead MineQuartzProducer1987, 1990
Robins MineQuartzProducer1971, 1978

Every working 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
Sweethome2.8 miles15
Mount Ida3.3 miles15
Silver3.6 miles15
Owley4.7 miles15
Rubie5.2 miles15
Ruble5.4 miles15
Plata6.0 miles16
Mauldin6.2 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 Hurricane GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18326163The 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 74604. 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.