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McGintytown, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Matthews Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72058. It stands on Tarkington Creek. The Survey maps it on the Holland quadrangle.

McGintytown within Faulkner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

94 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of McGintytown between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,073 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
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
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2007Arson/incendiarism33 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use30 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of McGintytown: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
Unk Shale Pits 3ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Faulkner County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McGintytown in 2 storm reports in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMcgintytown$20,000A few trees and power lines were blown down and part of a barn was blown into the road along Arkansas Highway 285.
April 2010HailMcgintytown-no account filed

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
Centerville2.6 miles12
Soda Valley3.7 miles12
Barney4.5 miles10
Rowlett (historical)4.7 miles12
Greenbrier5.2 miles11
Old Texas5.3 miles12
Holland5.3 miles11
Linder5.8 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122547760The 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 77633. 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.