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Milltown, Arkansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 2. It lies in ZIP code area 72936. The Survey maps it on the Burnville quadrangle. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Milltown within Sebastian County

On record in Milltown

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

12 surveys from 21 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

56 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Milltown between 1997 and 2020, burning about 531 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2003Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian 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 Milltown: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Peerless Coal CoFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milltown in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 6 hail, 6 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
January 2000Thunderstorm WindMilltown$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and also blew the roof off a garage.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMilltown-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMilltown-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindMilltown-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees near the intersection of Highways 60 and 252.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMilltown-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down numerous large tree limbs.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindMilltown-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a large tree.
June 2023HailMilltown-no account filed
April 2015HailMilltown-no account filed
March 2009HailMilltown-no account filed
March 2009HailMilltown-no account filed
March 2008HailMilltown-no account filed
January 1999HailMilltown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
Burnville3.0 miles21
Washburn3.1 miles23
Crossroads4.0 miles22
Dayton5.0 miles22
Witcherville6.2 miles22
Fidelity (historical)6.3 miles21
Auburn (historical)6.8 miles25
Carnis6.9 miles21

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 MilltownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16895159The 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 58191. 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.