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Nola, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in District 6. It lies in ZIP code area 72841. It stands on Janes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gravelly quadrangle.

Nola within Scott 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

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Nola between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,468 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 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/incendiarism6
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
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
9 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2012Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOuachita National ForestABOUTT
15 July 2006Natural48 acresOuachita National ForestHONEYCUTT
5 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOuachita National ForestD12

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nola in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2014: 1 hail, 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
October 2014Thunderstorm WindNola$1,000Large limbs were blown down.
March 1996HailNola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Nebraska (historical)0.8 miles16
Little Texas2.6 miles16
Harvey3.2 miles16
Union Hill4.3 miles16
Blue Ball6.1 miles16
Olio6.2 miles16
Forester8.4 miles16
Cedar Creek9.2 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 NolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65122797The 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 72876. 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.

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.