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Providence, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72081. The Survey maps it on the Judsonia quadrangle. It stands 505 feet above sea level.

Providence within White County

On record in Providence

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 5 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

80 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Providence between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,367 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural2
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
9 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use96 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionWHI17887418
27 September 2010Debris and open burning55 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning10 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

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Providence: 7 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
MalvernSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Providence in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2009: 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 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
November 2009FloodProvidence-Heavy rainfall at the end of October allowed the Little Red River at Judsonia to remain above flood stage into the early morning of November 1st.
October 2009FloodProvidence-Heavy rainfall at the end of the month pushed the Little Red River at Judsonia above flood stage.
April 2008Flash FloodProvidence-Arkansas Highway 157 near Arkansas Highway 258 was flooded.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindProvidence-Some large tree limbs were snapped off several trees.
April 2008HailProvidence-no account filed
April 2003HailProvidence-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
Wrights Corner3.0 miles10
Short (historical)3.5 miles11
Holly Springs3.8 miles11
Plainview4.0 miles11
Steprock4.1 miles9
Bliss (historical)4.2 miles9
Bare Stone4.4 miles9

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 ProvidenceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7252352The 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 58440. 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.