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Osage Mills, 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 72713. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Centerton quadrangle.

Osage Mills within Benton County

On record in Osage Mills

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 4 records

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

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Osage Mills between 1999 and 2019, burning about 1,155 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
7 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism875 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionBUTLER CREEK
12 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 2012Smoking23 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 March 2010Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

14 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osage Mills in 14 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) measured 68 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2025Flash FloodOsage Mills-Portions of multiple roads were flooded and closed in and around Cave Springs.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) measured thunderstorm wind gusts up to 66 mph.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) measured 64 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) measured 64 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA) measured 63 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2020Flash FloodOsage Mills-Portions of Mill Dam Road were closed due to flooding.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 59 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 63 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (KXNA) measured 66 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 61 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS unit at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 59 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 58 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindOsage Mills-The ASOS at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) measured 82 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.

Every storm 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
Cannon (historical)1.9 miles17
Healing Springs1.9 miles17
Cave Springs2.3 miles17
Castleville (historical)2.5 miles17
Vaughn3.0 miles17
Rocky Comfort3.6 miles17
Mason Valley4.0 miles17
Hart (historical)4.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77927. 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.

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.