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Nunley, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71953. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mena quadrangle.

Nunley within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

42 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Nunley between 1996 and 2019, burning about 774 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2015Smokingunder an acreOuachita National ForestWPG 313
12 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2012Natural4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOuachita National ForestDALLAS MOUNTAIN 4
21 August 2006Natural42 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2012Naturalunder an acreOuachita National ForestBOARD CAMP CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Nunley: 5 past producers. 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, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nunley in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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
July 2011Flash FloodNunley$30,000Culverts were washed out after heavy rain - up to 4 inches - fell in the Board Camp area.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindNunley$2,000A tree fell on Arkansas 8.
April 2022Heavy RainNunley-A report was received of 4.07 inches of rain fell since 8 pm CST, and of that, 1.66 inches fell from 11pm through 12 am CST, at Board Camp Creek near Nunley.
September 2020Flash FloodNunley-The Polk County sheriff's office reported flash flooding on Hwy. 375, southeast of Mena.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindNunley-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
May 2012HailNunley-no account filed
September 2006Funnel CloudNunley-no account filed
May 1999HailNunley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Dallas3.1 miles20
Corinth3.3 miles20
Board Camp3.4 miles19
Ink3.7 miles19
Mena5.3 miles20
Pine Grove5.5 miles19
Yocana6.5 miles19
Shady6.6 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122561129The 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 72904. 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.