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Piney Grove, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in La Grange Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71845. The Survey maps it on the Old Town quadrangle.

Piney Grove within Lafayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

86 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Piney Grove between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,087 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 16 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Piney Grove: 25 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Clay. 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
Wilcox GroupClayUnknown
UnkIronPast Producer
UnkIronPast Producer
Barr PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Buelar PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Meriwether Sand & Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Piney Grove in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPiney Grove-A power line was downed along Highway 29 just north of County Road 42.
July 2022HailPiney Grove-Large limbs down along Highway 29 and quarter-sized hail reported by Arkansas State Police.
October 2019HailPiney Grove-Quarter size hail fell 5 miles north of Lewisville.

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Midway1.9 miles14
Boyd Hill3.5 miles15
Baker3.7 miles14
Old Town4.0 miles14
Lewisville5.7 miles16
Stamps7.7 miles12
Shiloh8.5 miles12
Apalco9.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58385. 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.