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Mountain Valley, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Whittington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71909. It lies near Glazypeau Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Jessieville quadrangle.

Mountain Valley within Garland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

211 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Valley between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,140 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 68 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/incendiarism68
Debris and open burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Natural17
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2

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
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOuachita National ForestPLUG
30 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Valley: 12 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz, Flagstone. 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
Caldwell QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
No NameFlagstonePast Producer
No NameClayPast Producer
Blocker Lead QuartzQuartzProducer1940
John Mcearl TractQuartzProducer1940
Quartz Processing Corp. QuarryQuartzProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain Valley in 1 storm report in 1994: 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
July 1994HailMountain Valley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garland 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
Blue Springs3.2 miles13
Ozark Lithia3.3 miles15
Hot Springs Village4.3 miles14
Blakely4.7 miles13
Jessieville5.0 miles13
Bonanza Springs (historical)5.1 miles15
Fountain Lake5.3 miles14
Lena (historical)6.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 72793. 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.