Marcella, Arkansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in District 6. It lies in ZIP code area 72555. It lies near Conditt Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Marcella quadrangle. It stands 417 feet above sea level.
On record in Marcella
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 8 records
Jessie Abernathy Houselisted 1985
Thomas E. Hess Houselisted 1983
Marcella Church & Schoollisted 1985
Owen Martin Houselisted 1985- H. J. Doughtery Houselisted 1985
- Binks Hess House and Barnlisted 1985
- Thomas M. Hess Houselisted 1985
- Taylor-Stokes Houselisted 1985
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Marcella quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
67 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Marcella between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,800 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 18 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Marcella: 5 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Marble, Dimension, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mcbride Mines | Marble, Dimension, Flagstone | Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Barksdale Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1918 | |
| Caraway Prospect | Manganese | Past Producer | 1918 | |
| Cason Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1928 | |
| Manganese Field Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1918 | |
| Mcbride Mine | Manganese | Past Producer | 1939 |
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marcella in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2006: 2 tornado, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Marcella | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcella | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and some large tree limbs. |
| November 2005 | Tornado (F2) | Marcella | - | A strong tornado was spawned in eastern Stone County roughly 3.6 miles west of Marcella. The tornado tracked to the northeast, and tore the porch off of a house and damaged the roof. A roof was removed from a barn with another barn roof damaged. Several homes had roof damage, and a shed was destroyed. Hundreds of trees were downed, with one tree on a flatbed truck. The tornado dissipated 2.7 miles northeast of St. James. |
| September 2003 | Flash Flood | Marcella | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Grove | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Bluetip (historical) | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Melrose | 3.6 miles | 17 | |
| Saint James | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Bothersome (historical) | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Chalybeate Springs | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Ben | 5.8 miles | 15 | |
| Kahoka (historical) | 5.9 miles | 15 |
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 Marcella | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14681181 | The 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 58122. 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.





