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Lono, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clear Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72104. The Survey maps it on the Willow quadrangle.

Lono within Hot Spring County

On record in Lono

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

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

114 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Lono between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,020 acres in total. 13 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
Debris and open burning36
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural13
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lono: 6 unknowns. None of them still produces. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Hot Spring County

Storms near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lono in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 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
April 2008Flash FloodLono$25,000Street flooding occurred in Malvern. Road flooding occurred across the county.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLono-Powerlines were reported downed by thunderstorm winds near the town of Lono, along Hwy. 222.
March 2021HailLono-Half dollar size hail was noted between Donaldson and Lono.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLono-Trees were reported to be blown down.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLono-Trees were blown down.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Lono-A weak tornado moved from Dallas County into the extreme southeast corner of Hot Spring County about 4.2 miles southwest of Lono along Highway 9. An eyewitness observed the tornado cross from Dallas County into Hot Spring County. The only damage noted were a few trees that were blown down. The tornado continued moving northeastward into Grant County.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindLono-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines.
April 2023HailLono-no account filed
August 2008HailLono-no account filed
May 2002HailLono-no account filed
March 1999Tornado (F1)Lono-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindLono-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hot Spring 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
Rolla1.1 miles9
Landers4.4 miles12
Twin Oak (historical)6.2 miles12
Durian (historical)6.2 miles12
Fleming (historical)6.6 miles12
Harp9.2 miles12
Elmore (historical)9.7 miles12
Central9.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 51448. 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.