Minorca, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Little Black Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72444. It lies near Grindstone Hill. The Survey maps it on the Supply quadrangle.

Minorca within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1935 USGS Reyno quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Supply quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Minorca between 1992 and 2020, burning about 574 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
12 September 1997	Debris and open burning	37 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2010	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2007	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2007	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2007	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 April 2016	Debris and open burning	24 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	135631-09100-04082016-1405
12 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Minorca: 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
C H Martin Land No 3	Iron	Prospect
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
B.L. Williams Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
York Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minorca in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Minorca	$5,000	A few trees were knocked down.
May 2025	Hail	Minorca	-	Hen egg sized hail fell near Pitman.

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pitman	1.7 miles	12
Glaze Creek	2.2 miles	11
Supply	2.6 miles	12
Old Siloam	4.2 miles	11
Middlebrook	4.9 miles	11
Maynard	5.8 miles	11
Elkins Park	6.5 miles	11
Brakebill	6.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57124. 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.