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Langley, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mountain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71952. It stands on Little Blocker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Langley quadrangle. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Langley within Pike County

On record in Langley

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

10 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

57 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Langley between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,849 acres in total. 14 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
Arson/incendiarism27
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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 2005Arson/incendiarism210 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2006Debris and open burning103 acresArkansas Forestry Commission147
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2001Natural5.0 acresOuachita National ForestHOG PEN
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Langley: 11 unknowns, 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Manganese, Silica, 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
Pike Mining CoSlate, DimensionUnknown
SugarstickCobaltOccurrence
Unknown Shale PitClayUnknown
LangleySilicaUnknown
UnknownSilicaUnknown
Caddo RiverManganeseUnknown
Joseph Kehr ManganeseManganeseUnknown
Prospect Number ThreeManganeseProspect1916
United Minerals Industries IncManganeseUnknown
UnkManganeseUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Langley in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 7 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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 2011FloodLangley$1,000,000no account filed
April 2011FloodLangley$350,000Widespread areal flooding occurred.
June 2010Flash FloodLangley$50,000Flash flooding occurred along the Little Missouri River, the Caddo River, and many of their tributaries. Many highways and secondary roads were flooded. In Glenwood, the Caddo River flooded the cattle auction business, a gas station, and a canoe rental business. Just west of Langley, the Little Missouri River rose from 3 feet to more than 23 feet in only 4 hours. Rainfall for the 24 hour period ending at 7 AM on the 11th included 7.60 inches at Glenwood and 7.20 inches at Langley. The majority of this rain occurred after thunderstorms developed during the early morning hours of the 11th.
May 2009Flash FloodLangley$50,000Several county roads were under water, and water entered the county jail at Murfreesboro.
April 2008Flash FloodLangley$30,000Damage occurred to roadways due to flash flooding.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLangley$2,000A tree was blown down, blocking Arkansas 369 north of U.S. 70.
August 2020Flash FloodLangley-The sheriff office reported portions of Highway 84 West near Langley was flooded.
July 2019Heavy RainLangley-The COOP observer reported 12.73 inches for the event total rainfall.
August 2016Flash FloodLangley-Several county roads are impassable due to rapidly rising creeks near Langley.
April 2011Heavy RainLangley-The reporting station at Langley recorded its wettest April ever.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindLangley-Trees and power lines were reported down across Rocky Hollow Road.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindLangley-Few trees downed.
April 2004Tornado (F0)Langley-A weak tornado was spawned in northern Pike County about 2 miles northwest of the Lodi community. The tornado snapped some trees and blew a few trees down. The tornado was on the ground about 2.5 miles before dissipating just northeast of Lodi.
June 1994HailLangley-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
April 2008HailLangley-no account filed
April 2005HailLangley-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindLangley-no account filed
August 2000HailLangley-no account filed
August 1998HailLangley-no account filed
March 1996HailLangley-no account filed
May 1994HailLangley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Star of the West (historical)5.1 miles11
Henry5.7 miles16
Newhope6.0 miles12
Cooper (historical)6.9 miles17
Lodi7.1 miles17
Daisy7.4 miles14
Grandfield7.5 miles12
Zebulon (historical)11.2 miles17

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 LangleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6486199The 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 77445. 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.