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Jersey, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 7. It lies in ZIP code area 71651. It stands on Jordan Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jersey quadrangle. It stands 161 feet above sea level.

Jersey within Bradley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

64 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Jersey between 2001 and 2019, burning about 533 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 16 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
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bradley 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 Jersey: 1 producer. All of them 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
Harrell Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bradley County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jersey in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2004: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
August 1993Thunderstorm WindJersey$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
April 2004Tornado (F0)Jersey-A weak tornado briefly touched down in western Bradley County, just to the northwest of Jersey. A tree was blown down onto a house causing only minor roof damage. The only other damage noted along the tornado path were a number of downed tree limbs and some small trees blown down.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindJersey-no account filed
April 2000HailJersey-no account filed
February 1996HailJersey-no account filed
July 1994HailJersey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bradley 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
Hilo5.1 miles17
Gravelridge5.2 miles18
Pirlte (historical)5.3 miles18
Castleberry (historical)7.3 miles18
Hermitage7.5 miles18
Lanark7.6 miles12
Craney7.9 miles13
Marsden8.5 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.

Wikipedia article on JerseyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6184737The 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 57991. 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.