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King, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mineral Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71841. The Survey maps it on the Gillham quadrangle.

King within Sevier County

On record in King

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

130 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of King between 1997 and 2020, burning about 995 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 61 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/incendiarism61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Natural14
Debris and open burning14
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2

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 2003Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2000Arson/incendiarism22 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2000Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sevier County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of King: 21 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Antimony, Lead. 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
Davis MineCopper, Lead, ZincPast Producer
OttoAntimony, Lead, Zinc, Silver, GoldProducer1877
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sevier County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names King in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 1 hail, 1 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
March 2026Tornado (EF1)King$25,000Early on the morning of March 11th, a line of severe thunderstorms moved into Sevier County, Arkansas. The line of thunderstorms produced a brief EF1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 95 mph just east of U.S. Highway 71 southeast of Gillham. As the tornado touched down east of the highway, it damaged several large barns before it then snapped several hardwood trees in a downstream field. The tornado then crossed Kind Road where multiple trees were snapped and uprooted. As the tornado moved east of Kind Road, it damaged several more trees before quickly lifting.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindKing$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
May 1994HailKing-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.

Every storm recorded in Sevier 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
Gillham1.9 miles15
Pullman2.2 miles14
Fairview2.4 miles15
Mineral3.6 miles15
Antioch (historical)3.7 miles15
Cross Trails (historical)4.0 miles14
Red Hill (historical)4.6 miles14
Avon4.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77405. 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.