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Milrose, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Paraclifta Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71846. It stands on Bellville Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lockesburg quadrangle.

Milrose within Sevier County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

83 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Milrose between 1997 and 2019, burning about 841 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 43 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/incendiarism43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural5
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 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2005Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sevier 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 Milrose: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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
Dequeen Rock QuarryFlagstoneProducer
UnkStonePast Producer
McKeller Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sevier County

Storms near this place

7 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milrose in 7 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 5 hail, 2 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
March 2023HailMilrose-Penny size hail reported about 6 miles south of Lockesburg.
June 2023HailMilrose-Tennis ball size hail reported near the intersection of U.S. Highway 71 and State Highway 2.
June 2023HailMilrose-Baseball size hail reported around 5 miles northwest of Ben Lomond.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindMilrose-A 65 mph wind gust was measured about 5 miles northwest of the Ben Lomond community.
April 2019HailMilrose-Nickel size hail was reported just northwest of the Ben Lomond community.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMilrose-A severe thunderstorm produced a damaging downburst on Melrose Road south of Lockesburg, which snapped and uprooted several trees and pushed a low-topped metal barn about 30 feet and collapsed it.
April 2017HailMilrose-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sevier 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
Bellville1.4 miles10
Pennys3.1 miles10
Stringtown3.3 miles10
Lockesburg3.4 miles10
Dilworth3.6 miles10
Paraclifta (historical)3.8 miles11
Milford5.3 miles10
Walnut Springs6.0 miles10

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 Q122551401The 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 58192. 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.