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Old Austin, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Caroline Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72007. It stands on Hudson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Oak Grove quadrangle.

Old Austin within Lonoke County

On record in Old Austin

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

11 surveys from 14 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

56 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Old Austin between 2000 and 2017, burning about 1,702 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 30 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/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning17
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
5 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2008Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2008Natural7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2000Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 July 2006Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lonoke 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 Old Austin: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum. 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
Bauxite ExplorationAluminumOccurrenceBauxite
Cabot Quarry & Mill No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lonoke County

Storms near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Austin in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 3 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
July 2014Thunderstorm WindOld Austin$5,000Large limbs and debris were blown around. The observer estimated winds at 60 mph.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindOld Austin$5,000Trees were blown down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindOld Austin$2,000A large oak tree with a diameter of 2 feet was broken off at the base.
April 2025Flash FloodOld Austin-Widespread flash flooding occurred in and around Austin.
October 2022HailOld Austin-Pictures on social media showed golfball sized hail east of Cabot, south of Austin.
October 2022HailOld Austin-We received a social media picture of hail from Cabot.
November 2018Flash FloodOld Austin-Water was over Dogwood Lane, south of state highway 38.
May 2009Flash FloodOld Austin-Dogwood Lane was flooded and impassible.
November 2006HailOld Austin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lonoke 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
Sweetwater Estates0.1 miles14
Shady Grove Estates0.5 miles14
Circle B Addition0.7 miles14
Leaning Pines0.8 miles14
Trailwood Addition0.8 miles14
Woodiel Acres1.1 miles14
Cooper Addition1.3 miles14
Stagecoach Addition1.3 miles14

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 Q122549955The 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 52983. 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.