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Prairie View, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Logan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72863. It stands on Prairie View Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Scranton quadrangle. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Prairie View within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Prairie View between 1992 and 2017, burning about 693 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National Forestsnot named
20 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2012Naturalunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsPINE RIDGE
1 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan 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 Prairie View: 17 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, 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
Arkansas Cherry Blend Stone CoStone, DimensionPast Producer
Arkansas Wild Rose Stone CoStone, DimensionPast Producer
Texas LedgestoneStone, DimensionPast Producer
Arkansas Rainbow Stone Quarry &MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Midway Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Needham Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
River Mountain Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prairie View in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindPrairie View-Barn roofs destroyed with metal roof debris scattered across roads and fields. Significant trees knocked down near Prairie View.
June 2023Tornado (EF2)Prairie View-This tornado began just downstream of Prairie Mountain southwest of Fox Road. Along Fox Road, five of six chicken houses were completely destroyed. Debris from the chicken houses was blown across Fox Road into an adjacent tree line. The tornado continued northeast crossing Highway 288 removing roofing material off of a house and a couple more chicken houses sustained damage. A two car garage was blown off the foundation; no wall attachments were found connected to the slab. The tornado crossed Highway 109 and Hillcrest Lane uprooting trees and removing the roofing material off of an outbuilding while completely flattening another outbuilding. The tornado continued northeast crossing Stoney Point Road, Weiterer Road, Grenwelge Lane, to the intersection of Dublin Road and Highway 197 at the community of Dublin. The tornado uprooted some hardwood trees in this location before lifting. This tornado had maximum estimated winds of 120 mph and was rated an EF-2.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindPrairie View-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Scranton2.1 miles20
Shoal Creek2.9 miles20
Midway3.0 miles20
Dublin3.1 miles20
Johnson3.4 miles20
Saint Scholastica3.6 miles20
Ellsworth (historical)3.7 miles20
Morrison Bluff3.7 miles20

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 Prairie ViewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7238018The 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 78094. 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.