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Melrose, Arkansas

17 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 72550. It stands on Brier Creek. The Survey maps it on the Concord quadrangle. It stands 308 feet above sea level.

Melrose within Stone County

On record in Melrose

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

48 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Melrose between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,958 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
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
4 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1997Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Melrose: 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. 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
Cason MineManganesePast Producer1928
Mcbride PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mcbride QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Stone County

Storms near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Melrose in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2018: 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
April 2018Thunderstorm WindMelrose-Trees and power lines were blown down along Arkansas Hwy 14.
April 2004Flash FloodMelrose-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
Marcella3.6 miles15
Bluetip (historical)3.7 miles15
Bothersome (historical)4.7 miles15
Ben5.5 miles15
Pleasant Grove5.9 miles15
Chalybeate Springs6.3 miles15
Saint James7.5 miles15
Kahoka (historical)8.5 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 MelroseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6813611The 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 58162. 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.