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Ozone, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72854. It lies near Hickory Flat. The Survey maps it on the Ozone quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,949 feet above sea level.

Ozone within Johnson County

On record in Ozone

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Ozone between 1992 and 2018, burning about 501 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 23 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/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
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
9 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsHORSEWATER
7 September 1999Natural35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsTRAIL HEAD
24 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGILLIAN SETS
18 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGRAVE GAP
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsRIFLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ozone in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 18 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
February 2009Thunderstorm WindOzone$20,000Several trees were blown down in north central Johnson County, including one on Arkansas Highway 21 south of Ozone.
December 2019Thunderstorm WindOzone$5,000A tree was reported on a house on highway 21 and debris was in the road.
April 2026HailOzone-Quarter-sized hail fell in Ozone.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindOzone-Trees were blown down and blocking Highway 21 in Ozone.
June 2019Flash FloodOzone-The Johnson County EM reported several county roads were underwater due to flash flooding from earlier storms. The flooding was beginning to subside as of 845 am.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindOzone-Trees were down near Ozone.
April 2018Tornado (EF1)Ozone-The tornado developed just northwest of Ozone in northern Johnson county, just south of County Road 5420, knocking down several large pine trees. This tornado continued northeast through rural areas of the Ozark National Forest, continuing to knock down several pine and a few hardwood trees, including a few snapped trunks. This tornado lifted just east of Arkansas Hwy 21 near County Road 5571.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindOzone-A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was recorded near Ozone.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindOzone-A tree was reported down on a car on Highway 103 about 12 miles north of Clarksville, AR.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindOzone-Several large trees were blown down.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindOzone-Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
January 2005Thunderstorm WindOzone-Thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a porch.
February 2023HailOzone-no account filed
May 2009HailOzone-no account filed
May 2008HailOzone-no account filed
April 2006HailOzone-no account filed
March 2004Thunderstorm WindOzone-no account filed
May 2003HailOzone-no account filed
May 2003HailOzone-no account filed
April 2002HailOzone-no account filed
May 2000HailOzone-no account filed
August 1998HailOzone-no account filed
August 1998HailOzone-no account filed
March 1997HailOzone-no account filed
May 1996HailOzone-no account filed
April 1996HailOzone-no account filed
April 1996HailOzone-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindOzone-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindOzone-no account filed
March 1996HailOzone-no account filed
April 1995HailOzone-no account filed
June 1994HailOzone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Farris Springs1.1 miles13
Hickory Flat1.3 miles13
Gillian Settlement2.3 miles13
Garber4.3 miles13
Poyner (historical)4.3 miles13
Mount Zion5.6 miles13
Catalpa5.6 miles10
Dale (historical)5.9 miles10

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 OzoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7116624The 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 72975. 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.