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North Dardanelle, Arkansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in District 12. It lies in ZIP code area 72802. It stands on Whig Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dardanelle quadrangle. It stands 361 feet above sea level.

North Dardanelle within Pope County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

26 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of North Dardanelle between 1997 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
7 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2006Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2003Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2006Natural12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of North Dardanelle: 20 unknowns, 15 past producers, 7 producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Clay. 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
Black-Sands DepositTitaniumOccurrence
Dierks Crystal Area No 6SilicaPast Producer
Jacimore Ocher CaveIronUnknown
BerniceClayPast Producer
Shale PitClayUnknown
Bernice QuarryStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnknownStoneUnknown
UnknownStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Pope County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Dardanelle in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 3 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2011FloodNorth Dardanelle$5,000no account filed
April 2021FloodNorth Dardanelle-Heavy rain brought flooding to the Arkansas River at Dardanelle at the end of April.
May 2015FloodNorth Dardanelle-Heavy rainfall caused the Arkansas River at Dardanelle to rise above flood stage during the early morning hours of the 11th. This river then fell back below flood stage during the early morning hours of the 13th.
April 2011Funnel CloudNorth Dardanelle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Bernice1.5 miles19
New Hope1.6 miles19
Bethel2.2 miles19
Russellville3.4 miles19
Norristown3.4 miles19
Pisgah (historical)3.6 miles19
Pottsville5.1 miles19
Ouitaville5.3 miles19

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 North DardanelleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7055100The 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 77859. 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.