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Jessieville, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Hale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71949. It stands on Baily Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jessieville quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Jessieville within Garland County

On record in Jessieville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Jessieville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 723 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 65 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/incendiarism65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Debris and open burning33
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionGAR22988967
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Jessieville: 15 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz, Clay. 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
No NameCalciumPast Producer
Terry QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
No NameClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
Blocker Lead QuartzQuartzProducer1940
John Mcearl TractQuartzProducer1940
Quartz Processing Corp. QuarryQuartzProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jessieville in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2014: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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 2011FloodJessieville$3,000,000Some of the campsites around Lake Catherine were closed due to flooding.
April 2011FloodJessieville$1,000,000Widespread areal flooding occurred.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindJessieville$25,000Power poles and power lines were blown down.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindJessieville$2,000Large limbs were blown down around Jessieville.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindJessieville$1,000Large limbs were blown down.
November 2005Tornado (F1)Jessieville-A weak tornado touched down in the northern part of Garland County, about 4 miles northwest of Jessieville. Winds were estimated to be 90 mph. The tornado tracked through the Ouachita National Forest, snapping off and blowing down hundreds of trees. The tornado moved northeast into Saline County.
October 2004Flash FloodJessieville-Heavy rains caused flash flooding to occur in the Jessieville area. Several roads were flooded, causing school buses to detour around the flooded roads.
October 1995HailJessieville-Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees.
June 2011HailJessieville-no account filed
June 2008HailJessieville-no account filed
July 2008HailJessieville-no account filed
March 2008HailJessieville-no account filed
November 2005HailJessieville-no account filed
November 2004HailJessieville-no account filed
May 2001HailJessieville-no account filed
August 2000HailJessieville-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindJessieville-no account filed
August 1998LightningJessieville-no account filed
April 1998HailJessieville-no account filed
April 1998HailJessieville-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindJessieville-no account filed
April 1996HailJessieville-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindJessieville-no account filed
April 1995HailJessieville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garland 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
Blakely0.5 miles13
Blue Springs2.0 miles13
Lena (historical)2.9 miles13
Beaudry (historical)3.8 miles14
Hamilton3.8 miles13
Hot Springs Village3.9 miles14
Mountain Valley5.0 miles13
Ozark Lithia7.7 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 JessievilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6187869The 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 72184. 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.