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Mickles, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Danville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72833. It stands on Chickalah Creek. The Survey maps it on the Danville Mountain quadrangle.

Mickles within Yell County

On record in Mickles

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

9 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Mickles between 1992 and 2018, burning about 480 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Smoking2

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 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use58 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2005Natural25 acresOuachita National Forest658

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell 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 Mickles: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unk Gravel Pits 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unk Gravel Pits 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yell County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mickles in 1 storm report in 2009: 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 2009FloodMickles$25,000Heavy rainfall on the 23rd and 24th caused the Petit Jean River near Danville to rise above flood stage on the afternoon on the 24th. The river remained above flood stage through midnight on the 27th.

Every storm recorded in Yell 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
Lone Pine2.9 miles17
Alpha3.3 miles17
Kingston3.8 miles17
Mount George4.0 miles18
Ola4.4 miles18
Ranger4.6 miles17
Plainview5.5 miles12
Danville5.6 miles17

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 Q122551584The 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 72632. 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.