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Rockhouse, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in North Township. It stands on Rockhouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rockhouse quadrangle.

Rockhouse within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

89 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Rockhouse between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,694 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 47 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/incendiarism47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Debris and open burning5
Natural2
Smoking2

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 2002Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2012Natural25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2012Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 May 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 May 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2007Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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 Rockhouse: 1 past producer. 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, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockhouse in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
January 2013Tornado (EF1)Rockhouse$250,000A tornado destroyed several barns and outbuildings, damaged a couple homes, and snapped or uprooted numerous trees, and blew down power poles. Several cows were killed by flying debris at a farm where several barns were destroyed. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 105 to 115 mph.
July 2016Flash FloodRockhouse-Portions of a road between Rockhouse and Huntsville were closed due to high water.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindRockhouse-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large trees.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindRockhouse-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew the top off a tree and also blew down several other large tree limbs.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRockhouse-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
April 2014HailRockhouse-no account filed
April 2011HailRockhouse-no account filed
April 2011HailRockhouse-no account filed
May 2009HailRockhouse-no account filed
June 2009HailRockhouse-no account filed
May 2008HailRockhouse-no account filed
March 2006HailRockhouse-no account filed
June 2001HailRockhouse-no account filed
July 1994HailRockhouse-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Chaplin (historical)3.2 miles14
West Liberty4.8 miles14
Clifty7.2 miles14
Forum7.3 miles14
Alabam8.9 miles14
Old Alabam10.2 miles14
Rock10.3 miles14
Marble10.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57170. 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.