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Plantersville, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clear Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71675. The Survey maps it on the Cornerville quadrangle.

Plantersville within Drew County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

48 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Plantersville between 2001 and 2018, burning about 319 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionDRE8183819
6 September 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Drew County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Plantersville: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand 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 Drew County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plantersville in 1 storm report in 2018: 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPlantersville-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto Mt. Zion Rd.

Every storm recorded in Drew 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
Rock Springs1.5 miles10
Bethel3.4 miles10
Montongo3.5 miles9
Brandon3.9 miles9
Barkada6.6 miles9
Coleman7.0 miles12
Rose Hill7.8 miles9
Tennessee9.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57157. 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.