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Salado, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Salado Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72501. It stands on Ladd Branch. The Survey maps it on the Salado quadrangle. 472 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 427 feet above sea level.

Salado within Independence 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

52 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Salado between 1999 and 2020, burning about 694 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism14
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
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
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Debris and open burning42 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2000Natural18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2000Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Independence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Salado: 11 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
GreenfieldManganeseUnknown
UnkClayUnknown
Crusher #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rocky Point QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Independence County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salado in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2012Thunderstorm WindSalado$25,000Trees and large limbs were blown down on Arkansas 14 from Salado to Rosie.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindSalado-Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and destroyed an outbuilding.
May 2019HailSalado-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Independence 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
Southside1.6 miles17
McHue3.3 miles18
Rosie3.4 miles17
Rutherford3.7 miles17
Dennison Heights3.9 miles18
Clearview Estates4.3 miles18
Quail Valley4.5 miles20
Bryant4.6 miles18

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 SaladoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7403400The 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 54483. 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.