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Scottsville, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in District 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72837. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dover quadrangle. It stands 495 feet above sea level.

Scottsville within Pope County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

69 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Scottsville between 1995 and 2019, burning about 504 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 18 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
Debris and open burning28
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarism92 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCLUB RICK
5 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Smoking3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Debris and open burning50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Arson/incendiarism13 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsTPL LAND
24 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope 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 Scottsville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Pope County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pope County

Storms near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scottsville in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindScottsville$60,000Trees, power poles, and power lines were blown down. One of the trees fell on a house. Arkansas Highway 27 was blocked for several hours.
November 1993Thunderstorm WindScottsville$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and tore the roof off a building. Several homes in the area also sustained some minor damage.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindScottsville$15,000Numerous trees were blown down in the Ozark National Forest around Granny Gap Road.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindScottsville$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
January 1994Thunderstorm WindScottsville$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.
October 1993Thunderstorm WindScottsville$500A few trees were blown down.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindScottsville-A personal home weather station measured a 62 mph wind gust near the town of Hector.
June 2023Tornado (EF1)Scottsville-This tornado started just northwest of the intersection of Buck Mountain Road and Arkansas Highway 27, northeast of Dover. This tornado moved southeast along Buck Mountain Road before lifting west of the Esserman Lane. Tree damage was the primary damage with this tornado, with some trees uprooted to the northwest and some southeast in a converging pattern. This tornado had maximum estimated winds of 100 mph and was rated an EF1.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindScottsville-A report was received of a home destroyed off of Hwy 27.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindScottsville-A few trees were blown over and large tree limbs were down at Scottsville.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindScottsville-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs around Scottsville.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindScottsville-Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few trees.
November 2003HailScottsville-no account filed
June 1999HailScottsville-no account filed
June 1998HailScottsville-no account filed
May 1995HailScottsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Broomfield2.6 miles20
Boiling Springs (historical)3.3 miles16
Rock Springs4.0 miles16
Hector4.0 miles16
Pleasant Valley4.6 miles19
Dover4.8 miles20
Laurel (historical)5.2 miles15
Caglesville5.7 miles16

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 ScottsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7438196The 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 78306. 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.