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Parthenon, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Hudson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72666. It stands on Shop Creek. The Survey maps it on the Parthenon quadrangle. It stands 928 feet above sea level.

Parthenon within Newton County

On record in Parthenon

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

60 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Parthenon between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,677 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 1999Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBOUNDARY
19 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 May 2009Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 May 2005Railroad operations and maintenance55 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Parthenon: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Lead, Zinc. 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
Ozark Rock Co.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Blue BluffLead, ZincPast Producer
Boulder ProspectLeadPast Producer
Hudson PropertyLead, ZincPast Producer
JackpotLead, ZincPast Producer
J A LowrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lamar MineZincPast Producer
Newton County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Panther CreekZincPast Producer
Pruitt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parthenon in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 heavy rain, 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
March 2017Thunderstorm WindParthenon$110,000Several homes have suffered damage...and the post office has been destroyed. The roof was blown off of a church and several roadways are blocked.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindParthenon$30,000A roof was blown off of a church.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindParthenon$15,000Trees were blown down, with one of the trees falling on a house.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindParthenon$10,000A tree fell onto a home in Parthenon.
November 2024Heavy RainParthenon-A rainfall total of 8.64 inches was measured at Parthenon over the 24 hour period ending on November 4, 2024 at 6:04 AM CST.
June 2019Flash FloodParthenon-A sheriff deputy reported a 4 inch measured rainfall amount in Jasper. Flash flooding was reported in Parthenon where a couple of roads had locations that were washed out.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindParthenon-Newton County law enforcement reported several trees and a few powerlines were downed because of the line of thunderstorms.
July 2014Heavy RainParthenon-A home weather station measured 5.12 inches of rain in 97 minutes.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindParthenon-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
July 2014HailParthenon-no account filed
August 2011HailParthenon-no account filed
March 2000HailParthenon-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindParthenon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Diamond Cave2.3 miles13
Wayton3.5 miles9
Murray4.0 miles9
Gum Springs4.1 miles13
Jasper4.8 miles13
Mount Sherman5.4 miles14
Crossroad5.7 miles13
Shiloh6.1 miles9

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 ParthenonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7140248The 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 77959. 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.