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Owensville, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dyer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72087. The Survey maps it on the Lonsdale quadrangle.

Owensville within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

111 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Owensville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 712 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 40 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/incendiarism40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning25
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2011Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Owensville in 31 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flood, 3 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
December 2009FloodOwensville$2,000,000Flash flooding, which developed early on the evening of the 23rd, became widespread areal flooding on the 24th and continued through Christmas. At least 12 homes in Shannon Hills had major flood damage. Numerous roads were closed in Benton. The driveway in front of the fire station washed out in Bauxite. Streets flooded in the Forest Cove and Sunset Meadows subdivisions in Bryant. The Saline River at Benton rapidly rose above flood stage just after midnight on the 24th, reaching major flood stage the evening of the 24th. The Saline River remained above flood stage through much of Christmas Day before falling below flood stage the evening of the 25th.
December 2009Flash FloodOwensville$2,000,000Widespread heavy rain on the evening of the 23rd led to the development of flash flooding. Numerous county roads were blocked due to flooding. One subdivision in Haskell was flooded.
October 2009Flash FloodOwensville$135,000Numerous county roads were damaged by flooding.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindOwensville$40,000The roof was blown off a barn, part of the roof was taken off a house, and large trees were blown down.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindOwensville$5,000Trees were blown down near Arkansas Highway 5 and Owensville Cutoff.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindOwensville$2,000A tree was blown down onto Arkansas 5.
December 2017Thunderstorm WindOwensville$500This is a delayed report. Received a report of several trees snapped and a well house blown over near Lonsdale in northern Saline county.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindOwensville-Social media public report of message showing image of several snapped and trees blown down along Largo Drive near the community of Owensville, AR.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindOwensville-A tree fell onto a house in the 4600 block of Tyler Road in Owensville.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindOwensville-Trees were down near Owensville.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindOwensville-Trees and power lines were down along Highway 5.
September 2009FloodOwensville-Heavy rainfall in the middle of the month pushed the Saline River at Benton above flood stage. Impacts were minor.
October 2009FloodOwensville-Flash flooding which began on the 29th became widespread areal flooding on the 30th.
October 2009FloodOwensville-Heavy rainfall at the end of the month pushed the Saline River at Benton above flood stage.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOwensville-A large tree was down and was blocking Arkansas Highway 5.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindOwensville-Trees down.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindOwensville-Tree blown down onto a house.
June 2003Flash FloodOwensville-Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding around Owensville. Several streets were flooded and a part of State Highway 5 was partially covered by high water.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindOwensville-Several buildings sustained roof damage.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindOwensville-Thunderstorms downed several trees, blew over a swing set and knocked down a large tree onto a house in Hot Springs Village.
December 2001Tornado (F0)Owensville-A weak tornado (F0) briefly touched down about 1 mile north of Owensville in western Saline County. The tornado caused some minor property damage at a residence on a hilltop and clipped some treetops before it dissipated.
May 2016HailOwensville-no account filed
November 2005HailOwensville-no account filed
May 2002HailOwensville-no account filed
February 2000Thunderstorm WindOwensville-no account filed
March 2000HailOwensville-no account filed
January 1999HailOwensville-no account filed
May 1999HailOwensville-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindOwensville-no account filed
May 1996HailOwensville-no account filed
May 1995HailOwensville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Crows2.8 miles15
Rubicon3.1 miles15
Alum (historical)5.2 miles19
Nance5.4 miles15
Blocher6.7 miles14
Slocomb (historical)7.5 miles19
Klondike (historical)8.2 miles19
Kentucky8.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 53108. 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.