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Mayfield, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Goshen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72703. It lies near Vaughan Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Spring Valley quadrangle. It stands 1,214 feet above sea level.

Mayfield within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Mayfield between 1998 and 2020, burning about 101 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
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
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 April 2007Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 April 2003Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayfield in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2015: 4 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
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMayfield$15,000Several large trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind, one of which fell onto a house.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMayfield$5,000Telephone poles were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind onto Highway 303, north of Mayfield.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMayfield-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees at the intersection of Highways 45 and 303.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMayfield-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Spring Valley3.0 miles14
Goshen3.4 miles14
Rochelle Riviera4.2 miles19
Pilgrims Rest4.6 miles14
Blue Springs Village4.7 miles19
War Eagle Cove5.6 miles14
Sonora5.8 miles19
Habberton5.8 miles18

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 MayfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6797144The 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 57106. 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.

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.