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Metalton, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Southeast Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72616. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marble quadrangle.

Metalton within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

45 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Metalton between 1997 and 2020, burning about 848 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning11
Smoking2
Natural2
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
1 September 2000Natural4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2012Natural8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2012Smokingunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll 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 Metalton: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Fancher TractManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Metalton in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 tornado, 2 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
October 2009Flash FloodMetalton$200,000Numerous roads were flooded and closed in and around Metalton, Oak Grove, and Carrollton. Some of these were washed out by flood water. Five houses were evacuated due to flood waters.
April 2008Tornado (EF1)Metalton$50,000The tornado that began about 1 mile west-southwest of Alabam in Madison County Arkansas continued into Carroll County about 9.4 miles south-southwest of Berryville. The tornado damaged a home, destroyed barns, and caused extensive tree damage before it dissipated south of Berryville.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindMetalton$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew the roof off a barn.
May 2025Tornado (EF1)Metalton-This tornado developed north of Highway 412, just east of the Carroll County line and moved east toward Dryfork. The tornado snapped and uprooted numerous trees. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 100 to 105 mph.
April 2011Flash FloodMetalton-A low water crossing along Dry Fork Creek was impassable just west of State Highway 21.
March 2015HailMetalton-no account filed
May 1998HailMetalton-no account filed
May 1997HailMetalton-no account filed
August 1997HailMetalton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Dean2.2 miles13
Rudd2.4 miles13
Cave Spring (historical)2.6 miles13
Wolf Pen (historical)3.7 miles13
Cabanal3.8 miles12
Gobbler4.6 miles13
Conner4.7 miles13
Dryfork5.3 miles13

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 MetaltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38251036The 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 57114. 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.