Morning Sun, Arkansas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Mary Alice Hammond Houselisted 1992 · 0.2 miles away

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.

• 1932 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1967 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500
• 1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Morning Sun between 1997 and 2020, burning about 546 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Gum Springs (historical)
• Higginson
• Hedrick (historical)
• Conant
• Garner
• Searcy

Every fire recorded in White County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Morning Sun: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in White County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morning Sun in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 3 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.

Every storm recorded in White County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58215. 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.