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Oak Grove, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lone Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72104. It stands on North Fork Blakely Creek. The Survey maps it on the Social Hill quadrangle.

Oak Grove within Hot Spring County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

151 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 1997 and 2020, burning about 871 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 21 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 burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use21
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Smoking3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Oak Grove: 3 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite. 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
Cove CreekBarium-BaritePast Producer
Malvern Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Ouachita Gravel WasherSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Acme Brick Co.ClayProducer
UnkClayUnknown
UnkClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Hot Spring County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Grove in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2011Flash FloodOak Grove$1,000Water covered Grigsby Ford Rd.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindOak Grove$1,000A tree was blown down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-Trees and powerlines were blown down in the community of Social Hill.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-Trees were blown down across portions of Hot Spring County west of Malvern.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hot Spring 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
Social Hill1.2 miles11
Saginaw3.7 miles11
Abco4.0 miles12
Etta (historical)4.3 miles11
Central4.5 miles12
Walco (historical)4.7 miles12
Malvern4.9 miles12
Rockport5.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58288. 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.