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Plainview, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72081. The Survey maps it on the Judsonia quadrangle. It stands 397 feet above sea level.

Plainview within White County

On record in Plainview

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

72 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Plainview between 1997 and 2020, burning about 937 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionWHI17887418
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Plainview: 20 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay, 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
Aydelott MineManganeseUnknown
MidwestStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
MalvernSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plainview in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2011: 2 hail, 1 flood, 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
December 2009FloodPlainview$100,000The Little Red River at Judsonia went above flood stage Christmas Eve morning, and then went below flood stage the afternoon of Christmas Day. During that time, area residents along River Bend Drive in Searcy watched as large portions of their back yards were washed into the river due to the high water.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPlainview$7,000Several large trees were blown down around Plainview.
July 2011HailPlainview-no account filed
April 2006HailPlainview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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
Clear Water (historical)2.7 miles11
Judsonia3.5 miles11
Bee Rock3.5 miles11
Midway3.9 miles10
Providence4.0 miles11
Wrights Corner4.1 miles10
Doniphan4.5 miles14
Holly Springs4.5 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.

Wikipedia article on PlainviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7200768The 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 58397. 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.