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Norwood, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72761. It stands on Norwood Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Rhea quadrangle. It stands 1,165 feet above sea level.

Norwood within Benton County

On record in Norwood

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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 Norwood between 1992 and 2017, burning about 965 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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/incendiarism33
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
10 September 2011Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsTOWER RD. FIRE
8 August 2011Smoking3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 July 2011Smoking63 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 May 2014Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionBEN17921948

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton 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 Norwood: 2 unknowns. None of them 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, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Trident1.6 miles17
Chambers Spring (historical)1.6 miles17
Martin4.5 miles17
Lake Frances4.5 miles19
Pedro4.6 miles17
Gallatin6.3 miles17
Siloam Springs6.4 miles19
Twin Springs6.4 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 NorwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7061576The 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 75932. 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.