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Monarch, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marion County Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72687. It lies near Salina Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Peel quadrangle.

Monarch within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

127 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Monarch between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,744 acres in total. None started naturally. 80 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/incendiarism80
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
30 September 2004Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2010Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 2005Arson/incendiarism35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 May 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 May 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 40 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Monarch: 19 occurrences, 13 unknowns, 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Stone. 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
Unknown QuarryStoneUnknown
Unknown QuarryStoneUnknown
Broome CountyLead, ZincUnknown
CopperheadLead, ZincUnknown
Governor EagleLead, ZincUnknown
Markle MineLead, ZincPast Producer1891
NokomisLead, ZincUnknown
Pigeon RoostLead, ZincUnknown
UnknownLead, ZincOccurrence
Unknown Group of ClaimsLead, ZincOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monarch in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 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
August 2014Flash FloodMonarch$50,000Excessive rainfall caused flash flooding, which washed out or damaged 20 county roads. County dump trucks were called out to begin road repairs. The Monarch area received 3.5 inches of rain in one hour.
June 2008HailMonarch-The hail size ranged from quarter to golf ball sized.
June 2008Heavy RainMonarch-Rainfall amounted to 0.90 inch in only 20 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Dodd City4.4 miles15
Lakeway4.9 miles15
Peel5.6 miles16
Mount Perrian (historical)7.3 miles16
Snow8.9 miles15
Pyatt9.1 miles16
Powell9.8 miles16
Georges Creek9.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58203. 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.