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Martinville, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Walker Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72039. It stands on Shilling Branch. The Survey maps it on the Damascus quadrangle.

Martinville within Faulkner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

126 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Martinville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,565 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 45 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 burning46
Arson/incendiarism45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Arson/incendiarism75 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionDOCS LANE
27 September 2000Debris and open burning15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Faulkner 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 Martinville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Faulkner County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martinville in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2013: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2012Flash FloodMartinville$100,000Numerous county roads were flooded. Four homes in the Liberty community and one home in Greenbrier were evacuated due to rising creeks.
March 2012FloodMartinville$10,000Flash flooding earlier in the day became widespread areal flooding as creeks flooded.
May 2013Flash FloodMartinville-A number of roads were flooded. For the 24-hour period ending at 7 AM on the 31st, Conway measured 3.77 inches of rain.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMartinville-Large tree limbs downed.

Every storm recorded in Faulkner 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
Twin Groves3.2 miles13
Republican4.3 miles13
Pinnacle Springs (historical)4.7 miles13
Bono4.8 miles13
Shady Grove6.6 miles11
Guy7.8 miles12
Soda Valley7.9 miles12
Greenbrier8.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77607. 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.