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Magness, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Magness Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72553. It stands on Waldrip Branch. The Survey maps it on the Newark quadrangle. 220 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

Magness within Independence County

On record in Magness

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

Population over time

2 figures

Magness grew from 202 to 220 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010202
2020220+18 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

37 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Magness between 1999 and 2020, burning about 308 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 burning14
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking2
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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2006Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 June 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 June 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2003Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 April 2001Smoking16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Independence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Magness: 9 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Manganese. 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
UnkManganeseUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
River Sand & Gravel DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
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 Independence County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Magness in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 3 hail, 3 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 2006Thunderstorm WindMagness-Large tree limbs downed.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMagness-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
April 2018HailMagness-no account filed
June 2009HailMagness-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMagness-no account filed
May 1996HailMagness-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Independence 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
Newark2.1 miles14
Akron (historical)3.0 miles14
Rutherford3.4 miles17
Mount Zion3.5 miles14
Sulphur Rock3.5 miles20
Mount Carmel3.6 miles14
Rosie3.9 miles17
Maple Springs4.9 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 MagnessAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1928132The 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 51603. 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.