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Middleton, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Bird Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72027. It lies near Dutton Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Solgohachia quadrangle.

Middleton within Conway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

95 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Middleton between 1998 and 2020, burning about 738 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 40 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/incendiarism40
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conway County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middleton in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMiddleton$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Conway 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
Lick Mountain1.6 miles17
Sunnyside2.3 miles17
McClaren2.3 miles17
Grandview2.4 miles16
Arthur2.4 miles17
Birdtown2.6 miles16
Lanty2.6 miles17
Lone Grove3.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58169. 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.

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.