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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.

Marcella within Stone County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

67 since 1997

Regional 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/incendiarism24
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3

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 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mcbride MinesMarble, Dimension, FlagstoneProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Barksdale MineManganesePast Producer1918
Caraway ProspectManganesePast Producer1918
Cason MineManganesePast Producer1928
Manganese Field MineManganesePast Producer1918
Mcbride MineManganesePast Producer1939

Every working recorded in Stone County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1997Tornado (F1)Marcella$50,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMarcella-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and some large tree limbs.
November 2005Tornado (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 2003Flash FloodMarcella-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
Pleasant Grove2.4 miles15
Bluetip (historical)2.9 miles15
Melrose3.6 miles17
Saint James3.9 miles15
Bothersome (historical)3.9 miles15
Chalybeate Springs4.0 miles15
Ben5.8 miles15
Kahoka (historical)5.9 miles15

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 MarcellaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14681181The 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.