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James Mill, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jasper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72364. It lies near Lloyd Bottom. The Survey maps it on the Jericho quadrangle.

James Mill within Crittenden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of James Mill between 1999 and 2000, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning1
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
6 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWapanocca National Wildlife RefugeWAP 1
7 June 1999Debris and open burning10 acresWapanocca National Wildlife RefugeWAP 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crittenden County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of James Mill: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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
CarterSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rosebud IslandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Turbyfill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crittenden County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names James Mill in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindJames Mill$15,000A camper was flipped over near mile marker 12 on Interstate 55.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindJames Mill-Straight line winds broke a telephone pole in half nearly halfway up the pole at the intersection of Highway 77 and James Mill Road. Several power lines were knocked down.
July 2009HailJames Mill-Hail up to baseball size fell between mile markers 11 and 15 on Interstate 55.

Every storm recorded in Crittenden 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
Jericho1.7 miles14
Harvard2.1 miles18
Sunset2.9 miles18
Clarkedale3.3 miles14
Marion3.5 miles18
Gammon3.6 miles18
Scanlan (historical)4.7 miles14
Wylie Spur4.7 miles18

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 Q122598850The 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 57979. 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.