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Onia, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72663. The Survey maps it on the Onia quadrangle. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Onia within Stone County

On record in Onia

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Onia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,488 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 54 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/incendiarism54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
30 September 1994Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National Forestsnot named
29 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsFLAT
20 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism134 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGARAGE
11 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsVIXON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone 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 Onia: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
UnkStoneProducer
UnkStoneProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stone County

Storms near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onia in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2011: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindOnia$75,000Empty chicken houses were damaged. A barn roof was blown off. Roads were blocked by fallen trees.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindOnia$10,000Trees were blown down.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindOnia-Thunderstorm winds blew over a trailer and caused roof damage to several buildings. A number of trees and power lines were also knocked down.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindOnia-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree across a road.
June 2011HailOnia-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindOnia-no account filed
April 1993HailOnia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
Pleasant Hill1.5 miles15
Oga (historical)2.9 miles15
Alco3.0 miles15
Big Springs3.3 miles15
Timbo3.4 miles15
Newnata4.5 miles15
May (historical)5.4 miles15
Mozart5.8 miles15

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 OniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14681347The 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 72953. 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.