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Price, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lake Hamilton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71901. The Survey maps it on the Lake Catherine quadrangle.

Price within Garland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

144 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Price between 1997 and 2020, burning about 751 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 27 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 burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism27
Smoking10
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1998Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Price: 10 past producers, 10 producers, 5 prospects, 2 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Vanadium, Titanium, Niobium (Columbium), Barium-Barite. 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
(Facility) Jones Mills SmelterAluminumPlant
Arkansas Power and Light Company PropertyFluorine-Fluorite, PyritePast Producer
Christy Brookite DepositTitanium, MetalOccurrenceBrookite
Christy PropertyMolybdenum, Titanium, Metal, Niobium (Columbium), VanadiumProducerMolybdenite, Rutile
Christy PropertyVanadium, Titanium, MetalProspect1943, 1984, 1985
Golden-Estes PropertyMolybdenumPast Producer
Kimsey ProspectNiobium (Columbium), MolybdenumProducerBrookite, Molybdenite
Magnet Cove Mica DepositMicaUnknown
Magnet Cove Rutile MineTitanium, Metal, Niobium (Columbium)ProducerRutile
Magnet Cove Titanium Corp DepositTitanium, Niobium (Columbium)Past Producer1890, 1932

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Price in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPrice$40,000A large tree fell onto a house.
July 2009Flash FloodPrice$25,000Water covered U.S. Highway 270 at the junction of Arkansas Highway 171. Water was more than two feet deep, blocking traffic. A building housing a restaurant and bar at the intersection flooded, with the fire department having to pump more than a foot of water out of the business.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindPrice$5,000Trees were blown down on U.S. 270.

Every storm recorded in Garland 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
Potash Sulphur Springs (historical)1.8 miles12
Lake Catherine2.1 miles12
Gulpha (historical)3.2 miles14
Spring Lake (historical)3.3 miles12
Meaford (historical)5.5 miles15
High Point (historical)5.5 miles14
Red Oak5.5 miles11
Dripping Springs (historical)5.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 64347. 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.