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Piercetown, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1992. It stands in White Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72640. It lies near Jim Brown Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mount Judea quadrangle.

Piercetown within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Piercetown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,200 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 41 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/incendiarism41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Debris and open burning39
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
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
3 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 June 2013Fireworksunder an acreBuffalo National RiverCARVER GUARDRAIL
19 June 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 June 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Piercetown: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, 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
BierbaumLeadPast Producer
Bonanza MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Little Buffalo RiverZincPast Producer
Tom Hill PropertyZincOccurrence

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Piercetown in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2014: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
September 2014Thunderstorm WindPiercetown$5,000Trees were blown down, blocking Arkansas 123.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindPiercetown$2,000Several trees were reported down in Piercetown.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPiercetown-A tree was down on a power line on Arkansas Highway 74.
March 2012HailPiercetown-no account filed
April 2006HailPiercetown-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindPiercetown-no account filed
August 1999HailPiercetown-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
Vendor1.4 miles14
Carver2.1 miles14
Mount Judea3.2 miles14
Hasty3.6 miles13
Flatwoods4.4 miles13
Flat4.6 miles20
Red Rock4.9 miles13
Wells Creek (historical)5.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77995. 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.