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Roy, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Thompson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71852. It sits by Plaster Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Murfreesboro quadrangle.

Roy within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

61 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Roy between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,002 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning9
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking2
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
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Roy: 17 unknowns, 4 producers, 2 past producers, 2 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diamond, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Mercury. 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
Salt Gum FordMercuryUnknown
Twin Knobs ClaypitClayUnknown
UnknownKaolinUnknown
Arkansas Gypsum CompanyGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
F S Neely Co MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Highland MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Unknown MineGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
American MinesDiamondUnknown
Crater of Diamonds -NorthDiamondProspect

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roy in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 3 hail, 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
May 2012Thunderstorm WindRoy$25,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2023HailRoy-Tennis ball sized hail fell near Roy.
April 1994HailRoy-no account filed
June 1994HailRoy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Ball (historical)0.6 miles13
Maxwell (historical)0.6 miles13
Kimberley2.5 miles13
Murfreesboro3.7 miles13
Cooleyville3.8 miles12
Highland4.4 miles12
Norvelle (historical)5.6 miles12
Brocktown (historical)6.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58553. 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.