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Morrow, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in Morrow Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72717. It stands on Fly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Evansville quadrangle. 263 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,076 feet above sea level.

Morrow within Washington County

On record in Morrow

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

29 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Morrow between 1996 and 2017, burning about 478 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
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
5 September 2000Natural8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2002Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Morrow: 4 past producers. 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, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morrow in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2012: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 1995Thunderstorm WindMorrow$50,000no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindMorrow$25,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour rolled over a mobile home and did damage to poultry buildings. This damage was originally thought to be associated with a tornado but a storm survey team determined it was due to the rear flank downdraft of the supercell storm that produced a tornado northeast of Strickler a few minutes later.
April 2008Flash FloodMorrow-Heavy rain caused secondary roads near Morrow to be flooded. A man had to be rescued when his truck was swept off a low water crossing.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMorrow-Thunderstorm wnds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
August 2012HailMorrow-no account filed
August 2012HailMorrow-no account filed
August 2012HailMorrow-no account filed
March 2008HailMorrow-no account filed
April 2004HailMorrow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Skylight2.5 miles15
Clyde2.8 miles15
Dutch Mills3.1 miles15
Canehill4.1 miles15
Tolu4.3 miles15
Evansville5.4 miles15
Sexton (historical)5.4 miles17
Floss6.0 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on MorrowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6914200The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 72735. 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.