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Mitchell, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cleveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72583. It stands on Hutchinson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elizabeth quadrangle.

Mitchell within Fulton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

111 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Mitchell between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,776 acres in total. 1 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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 1999Equipment and vehicle use45 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burning60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionFUL28031383
26 August 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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 Mitchell: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mitchell in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2010: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2010Flash FloodMitchell$2,000Water was over roads south of Mitchell.
March 2006HailMitchell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Bexar2.7 miles11
Byron2.9 miles11
Elizabeth4.4 miles16
Wild Cherry4.7 miles16
Argosy (historical)5.2 miles16
Viola5.3 miles11
Shady Grove6.1 miles11
Union6.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58196. 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.