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Jones Mills, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Magnet Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72104. It stands on Cove Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Catherine quadrangle. 411 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 312 feet above sea level.

Jones Mills within Hot Spring County

On record in Jones Mills

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

203 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Jones Mills between 1997 and 2020, burning about 830 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 27 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 burning75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Arson/incendiarism27
Smoking16
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony3

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 1998Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Jones Mills: 12 past producers, 9 producers, 7 prospects, 5 unknowns. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Titanium, Stone, Vanadium. 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
(Facility) Jones Mills SmelterAluminumPlant
Christy Brookite DepositTitanium, MetalOccurrenceBrookite
Christy Deposit.Vanadium, Titanium, Niobium (Columbium)Prospect1890, 1976
Christy PropertyMolybdenum, Titanium, Metal, Niobium (Columbium), VanadiumProducerMolybdenite, Rutile
Christy PropertyVanadium, Titanium, MetalProspect1943, 1984, 1985
Golden-Estes PropertyMolybdenumPast Producer
Kimsey ProspectNiobium (Columbium), MolybdenumProducerBrookite, Molybdenite
Magnet Cove Mica DepositMicaUnknown
Magnet Cove Rutile MineTitanium, Metal, Niobium (Columbium)ProducerRutile
Magnet Cove Titanium Corp DepositTitanium, Niobium (Columbium)Past Producer1890, 1932

Every working recorded in Hot Spring 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
Shorewood Hills0.4 miles12
Cove Creek (historical)0.8 miles12
Magnet Cove2.6 miles13
Diamondhead3.1 miles12
Butterfield4.0 miles13
Rockport4.8 miles13
Oak Grove6.2 miles11
Malvern6.5 miles12

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 Jones MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6275247The 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 57997. 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.