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Pickren Hall, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Vidette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72583. It stands on Cotter Branch. The Survey maps it on the Gepp quadrangle.

Pickren Hall within Fulton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

76 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Pickren Hall between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,341 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 24 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 burning30
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1999Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pickren Hall: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Highway 87 Pit & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pickren Hall in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindPickren Hall$10,000Tree...power line...and some roof damage was reported.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindPickren Hall-Winds gusted to 60-70 mph.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Argosy (historical)3.3 miles16
Vidette3.4 miles16
Gepp3.9 miles16
Viola4.4 miles11
Ott4.9 miles16
Ruth5.9 miles18
County Line6.4 miles18
Flint Springs7.0 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122565270The 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 78927. 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.