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Majors, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Caddo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71921. It stands on Little Antoine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chalybeate Mountain West quadrangle.

Majors within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

72 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Majors between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,159 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 9 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2012Natural15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2011Natural8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2012Natural40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2012Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Majors: 10 past producers, 7 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Antimony, Ltd.MercuryPast ProducerCinnabar
Atlas QuicksilverMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
Bemis HillMercuryPast ProducerCinnabar
Clark's ProspectMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
FeatherstoneMercuryOccurrenceMercury
Hill 2MercuryPast ProducerCinnabar
Hill 3MercuryPast ProducerCinnabar
Hill 34MercuryPast ProducerCinnabar
HolmesMercuryPast ProducerCinnabar

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Majors in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2009: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
December 2007Flash FloodMajors$15,000Heavy rains from thunderstorms caused a bridge on Center Ridge Road at Rowe Creek to flood. The location was about a mile and a half south of Amity. A car was washed off the bridge, but the motorist escaped uninjured.
July 2009HailMajors-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Amity3.0 miles7
Alpine5.0 miles10
Graysonia6.8 miles10
Fendley7.4 miles10
Elm (historical)8.5 miles7
Lenox11.0 miles10
Clear Spring11.5 miles10
Halfway12.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57104. 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.