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Millville, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cleveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71720. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Mills quadrangle.

Millville within Ouachita County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

191 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Millville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,305 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 62 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/incendiarism62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Debris and open burning36
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural14
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
9 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Debris and open burning14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burning40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouachita County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Millville: 26 past producers, 6 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bearden-Holly Springs MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Eagle MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fairchild PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Millville Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ouachita County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millville in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 tornado. 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 2015Tornado (EF1)Millville$50,000This tornado continued from Calhoun County. Several trees were uprooted, along with several limbs snapped off. Within the town of Beardon, some windows were blown out and roof damage was observed at a few downtown businesses. Some metal was blown off a church. One large tree was blown over onto a home.

Every storm recorded in Ouachita 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
Salem1.4 miles16
Bearden2.3 miles16
Bests (historical)3.2 miles16
Eagle Mills3.2 miles16
Shumaker4.6 miles16
Onalaska (historical)5.3 miles16
Lilley (historical)5.4 miles16
Vanduzer7.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57121. 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.