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Laneburg, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Albany Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71835. It stands on Little Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Laneburg quadrangle. It stands 299 feet above sea level.

Laneburg within Nevada County

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

122 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Laneburg between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,253 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 30 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning29
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Laneburg: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Rosston DepositsIronPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Nevada County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laneburg in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2004Tornado (F1)Laneburg$80,000NWS conducted a storm survey and determined that damage in Nevada County was consistent with that of a tornado. Damage consisted of metal roofing partially peeled off a barn, a tree down on a house, a barn destroyed and two trees down across a mobile home. Several trees were also uprooted along the 10 mile track including several along route 299 from Morris to Bluff City. A tree also fell across a home just southwest of Bluff City.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindLaneburg$50,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLaneburg$25,000A fallen tree resulted in substantial roof damage to a home. Several other trees bell behind the home.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindLaneburg-Multiple trees downed across Highway 371 in Laneburg.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindLaneburg-Three chicken houses had their roofs partially removed.
May 2017Flash FloodLaneburg-High water from excessive heavy rainfall closed Highway 53 southeast of Emmet, Arkansas.
April 1994HailLaneburg-Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees.
May 2001HailLaneburg-no account filed
April 1994HailLaneburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nevada 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
Serepta Springs (historical)3.4 miles15
Harmony3.5 miles15
Mount Moriah3.6 miles15
Sutton3.9 miles15
New Mount Moriah (historical)4.4 miles15
Morris5.4 miles16
Bennett (historical)5.9 miles15
Clayton (historical)6.4 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 LaneburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6485474The 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 77443. 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.