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Junet, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72150. The Survey maps it on the Prague quadrangle.

Junet within Grant County

On record in Junet

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

6 surveys from 9 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

144 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Junet between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,454 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 44 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 burning55
Arson/incendiarism44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Natural6
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2016Arson/incendiarism25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Smoking3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Junet: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Jefferson County Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
McKenzie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Junet in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
October 2009Thunderstorm WindJunet$200,000Many trees were knocked down, with several of the trees falling on houses. Power lines were also felled.
October 2009Tornado (EF1)Junet$150,000The tornado blew down or snapped off thousands of trees on private timber lands.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindJunet-Live power lines were down and blocking Highway 270, 5 miles east of Sheridan per Arkansas State Police.
January 2012HailJunet-Hail cracked the windshield of an amateur radio operator.
October 2012Funnel CloudJunet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Center Grove1.5 miles9
Prague2.1 miles9
Clear Lake2.4 miles14
Ebb3.2 miles9
Amber (historical)4.6 miles12
Darysaw (historical)5.4 miles10
Walnut Ridge6.2 miles12
Obin (historical)7.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 60631. 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.