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Schaal, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71851. It stands on Negro Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mineral Springs South quadrangle.

Schaal within Howard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Schaal between 1998 and 2019, burning about 789 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism11
Debris and open burning10
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2004Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howard County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Schaal: 3 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Titanium, Metal, Titanium. 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
Adolph Chanosky DepositTitaniumOccurrence
Arkansas-Louisiana Lime Co.PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Beulah Green-Pink Green PlacerTitanium, MetalOccurrenceIlmenite
Bell Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Bevell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
N DavisSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Howard County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schaal in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2011: 1 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindSchaal$500,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed two chicken houses and blew down numerous trees.
March 2008Tornado (EF0)Schaal$200,000An EF0 tornado damaged a building along Cottonshed Lane and several trees were downed on the east side of Millwood Lake. Minor damage also occurred in Tollette to Town Hall and to a baseball field adjacent to it. Several homes sustained minor roof damage in the town of Tollette. One mile east of town, damage occurred to a chicken house.
April 2011Flash FloodSchaal-Numerous roads were closed throughout the county of numerous roads closed.

Every storm recorded in Howard 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
Tollette3.6 miles15
Shiloh3.7 miles11
Mineral Springs4.2 miles14
Allbrook4.2 miles15
Okay4.5 miles15
Schooley5.8 miles14
Saratoga6.0 miles15
Buck Range6.3 miles14

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 SchaalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7430873The 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 67104. 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.