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Savoy, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Litteral Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72704. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wheeler quadrangle. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.

Savoy within Washington County

On record in Savoy

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Savoy between 1992 and 2018, burning about 664 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 33 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/incendiarism33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning9
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
11 September 1998Fireworks1.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsSHOOTING RANGE
10 September 2011Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsTOWER RD. FIRE
30 August 1999Smokingunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWEDINGTON REC
5 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWEDINGTON LAKE
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 Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Savoy: 7 past producers. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

16 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Savoy in 16 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 8 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
June 2009HailSavoy$100,000Tennis ball size hail damaged homes and automobiles in Wedington Woods.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSavoy$25,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged chicken houses and snapped large tree limbs.
May 2022HailSavoy$20,000Hail up to ping pong ball size damaged vehicles and homes.
May 2022FloodSavoy-Portions of Highway 16 were flooded, and a vehicle was stranded at the bridge over the Illinois River.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Savoy-A tornado snapped large tree limbs. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 80 to 85 mph.
December 2015FloodSavoy-Highway 16 west of Fayetteville was closed due to flooding.
May 2015Flash FloodSavoy-The Illinois River near Savoy was reported out of its banks.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindSavoy-Several large trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2010Tornado (EF1)Savoy-A KNWA meteorologist reported that a tornado uprooted trees and snapped large limbs. The maximum wind speed in the tornado based on this damage was about 90 mph.
May 2025HailSavoy-no account filed
March 2017HailSavoy-no account filed
March 2015HailSavoy-no account filed
April 2011HailSavoy-no account filed
June 2009HailSavoy-no account filed
October 2007Thunderstorm WindSavoy-no account filed
May 2001HailSavoy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Wedington Woods1.4 miles18
Jabur (historical)3.4 miles18
Wheeler3.9 miles18
Blewford (historical)4.4 miles17
Harmon4.4 miles17
White Rock4.6 miles18
Weddington4.7 miles17
Rickert (historical)4.7 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 SavoyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7428421The 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 78300. 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.