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Macedonia, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Magnolia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71753. The Survey maps it on the Macedonia quadrangle.

Macedonia within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

95 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Macedonia between 1997 and 2020, burning about 819 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 29 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/incendiarism29
Debris and open burning17
Natural6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Macedonia: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur, Bromine. 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
Magnolia PlantSulfur, BromineProducer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Macedonia in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 lightning, 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
July 2003LightningMacedonia$40,000The Rudd's Crossing Volunteer Fire Department went to a barn fire on Columbia 147 off Arkansas 271 which was started by a lightning strike. The structure was reported a total loss.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindMacedonia-A few trees were downed at a residence near the intersection of Highway 160 and Columbia County Road 205.
June 1997FloodMacedonia-Several roads were inundated by rain.
May 1994HailMacedonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Philadelphia2.0 miles15
Hunt2.9 miles15
Harmony3.7 miles15
Kerlin4.0 miles13
Rocky Mound4.2 miles15
Horsehead5.0 miles14
Dodson5.1 miles15
Walker5.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58111. 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.