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Rea Valley, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marion County Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72634. It stands on Valley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rea Valley quadrangle.

Rea Valley within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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

77 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Rea Valley between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,222 acres in total. None started naturally. 34 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/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism34
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3

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 1998Arson/incendiarism80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2001Arson/incendiarism40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2011Arson/incendiarism46 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 May 2012Equipment and vehicle use40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Rea Valley: 8 unknowns, 3 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, 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
Flippin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kenneth Mcdowell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lion Hill MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown QuarryStoneUnknown
Big Elephant MineLead, ZincUnknown
Bonnie Blue MineLead, ZincUnknown
Cane Spring MineLead, ZincUnknown
Great Eastern ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Highup MineLead, ZincUnknown
Ike Emery ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rea Valley in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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
October 1995HailRea Valley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Hand Valley2.7 miles18
Flippin5.0 miles18
Old Buffalo5.8 miles18
Rush6.3 miles17
Cowan6.4 miles16
Keystone (historical)6.8 miles16
Yellville7.6 miles16
Ralph7.8 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122560077The 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 57165. 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.