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Larkin, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lacrosse Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72584. The Survey maps it on the Zion quadrangle.

Larkin within Izard County

On record in Larkin

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

148 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Larkin between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,878 acres in total. 1 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 burning59
Arson/incendiarism44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural1

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
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism23 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2006Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Larkin: 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, 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
Crutchfield FarmManganeseOccurrence
L.C.Crutchfield DepositIronOccurrence
Black Rock Sand & Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Izard County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Larkin in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindLarkin$2,000Two trees fell on Izard County Road 101, blocking the road.

Every storm recorded in Izard 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
New Liberty1.4 miles10
LaCrosse2.0 miles9
Jett (historical)2.8 miles10
Belview3.1 miles10
Violet Hill3.2 miles10
Brockwell3.8 miles10
Melbourne4.2 miles10
Newburg4.4 miles10

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 LarkinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q135192833The 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 58047. 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.