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Shelbyville, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Scott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72521. It stands on Crabtree Branch. The Survey maps it on the Grange quadrangle.

Shelbyville within Sharp County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

89 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Shelbyville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,760 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 38 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/incendiarism38
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
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
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2001Smoking3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2014Arson/incendiarism14 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionSHA27996771
25 August 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sharp County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Shelbyville: 7 past producers, 6 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Iron, Lead, 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
CalamineLead, ZincPast Producer
Carolyn NewmanManganeseOccurrence
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Clifton E.Cook PropertyIronUnknown
FitzhughLead, ZincPast Producer
GolcondaZinc, LeadPast Producer
Iron Ore MountainIronPast Producer
UnkIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Sharp County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shelbyville in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindShelbyville$200,000A business that manufactures portable buildings had a number of the buildings damaged or destroyed. Power lines were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Sharp 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
Aetna2.7 miles11
Simco (historical)2.8 miles11
Calamine3.6 miles8
Mobley (historical)4.8 miles11
Balboa (historical)7.4 miles8
Nelsonville7.8 miles8
Cave City8.0 miles19
Reed (historical)8.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78339. 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.