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Meadows, Arkansas

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1997. It stands in District 11. It lies in ZIP code area 72921. The Survey maps it on the Van Buren quadrangle.

Meadows within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 28 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

135 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Meadows between 1997 and 2020, burning about 738 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism11
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Meadows: 1 plant, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, 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
(Facility) Zinc SmelterZincPlant
Arkhola Sand & Gravel Co QuarryFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meadows in 1 storm report in 2015: 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
December 2015FloodMeadows-Portions of Highway 282 north of Alma were closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Concord1.6 miles28
Ball1.9 miles17
Furry2.1 miles28
Rudy2.4 miles17
Alma2.6 miles22
Eastgate Place3.1 miles28
Shibley3.3 miles28
Smeltzer3.4 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58158. 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.