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Mount Judea, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Big Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72655. It lies near Kent Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Mount Judea quadrangle. 110 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 928 feet above sea level.

Mount Judea within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

59 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Mount Judea between 1993 and 2020, burning about 692 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1

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
3 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2012Naturalunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsHUDSON MT.
11 July 2012Natural2.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsRICKETTS
22 June 2013Fireworksunder an acreBuffalo National RiverCARVER GUARDRAIL
21 June 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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 Mount Judea: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, 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
Lost Mountain MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Turkey Fat MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Z HudsonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
BierbaumLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Judea in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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
June 1995HailMount Judea-Dime-size hail covered the ground to a depth of three inches.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Vendor2.0 miles14
Piercetown3.2 miles14
Bass3.5 miles20
Red Rock4.0 miles13
Cave Creek4.3 miles20
Carver4.6 miles14
Flat4.7 miles20
Gum Springs5.8 miles13

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 Mount JudeaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14681270The 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 72752. 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.