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Robinson, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Township 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72761. It lies near Lower Round Top. The Survey maps it on the Robinson quadrangle.

Robinson within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Robinson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 762 acres in total. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2012Smoking8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2012Natural25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2012Arson/incendiarism3.3 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWILDCAT 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Robinson: 1 unknown. 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, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Robinson in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 1 tornado, 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
December 2010Tornado (EF2)Robinson$75,000This segment is the fifth of six segments of this long-track tornado. The tornado severely damaged a permanent home, destroyed a barn, snapped or uprooted numerous trees, and snapped power poles. The maximum estimated wind speed in this segment of the tornado based on this damage was 125 mph.||The tornado moved northeast and back into Washington County, Arkansas.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindRobinson-ARDOT cameras showed that strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees on Highway 412 at the Illinois River.

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Pedro2.4 miles17
Logan2.7 miles17
Gallatin4.4 miles17
Martin4.8 miles17
Chambers Spring (historical)5.2 miles17
Wager (historical)5.2 miles17
Rocky Comfort5.5 miles17
Hoover (historical)5.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 73320. 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.