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Mountain Top, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Mountain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72949. It lies near Brushy Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Hunt quadrangle.

Mountain Top within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Top between 1992 and 2018, burning about 552 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 36 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/incendiarism36
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
2 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 May 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National Forestsnot named
3 April 2006Arson/incendiarism14 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsMORGAN KNOB #2
3 April 2004Arson/incendiarism11 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCLEAR CREEK
3 April 1997Arson/incendiarism40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 April 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsACORN
25 April 1997Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsPINE FLAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Top: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 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, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain Top in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2012: 2 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 2012HailMountain Top-no account filed
March 2010HailMountain Top-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Mineral Springs1.3 miles10
Pittston Junction1.7 miles10
Peanut3.8 miles10
Beach Grove3.8 miles10
Redding4.6 miles15
Barnes4.9 miles15
Paradise5.5 miles15
Watalula6.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 63020. 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.