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Morris, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Georgia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71858. The Survey maps it on the Bluff City quadrangle.

Morris within Nevada County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

64 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Morris between 1997 and 2020, burning about 782 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 22 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/incendiarism22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning14
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
27 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2004Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Morris: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Rosston DepositsIronPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkIronPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Nevada County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morris in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 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
April 2015Thunderstorm WindMorris-Trees and powerlines were downed southeast of Prescott, Arkansas.

Every storm recorded in Nevada 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
Serepta Springs (historical)2.2 miles15
Dills Mills2.2 miles16
Cale3.0 miles16
Zama (historical)4.1 miles16
New Mount Moriah (historical)4.1 miles15
Mount Moriah4.2 miles15
Gum Grove4.2 miles16
Oak Grove5.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57127. 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.