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Silver, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71957. It stands on East Fork Twin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Reed Mountain quadrangle.

Silver within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

74 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Silver between 1993 and 2020, burning about 775 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
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
8 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOuachita National Forest177 W-18
6 September 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Debris and open burning23 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOuachita National ForestHICKORY NUT #1
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOuachita National ForestHICKORY NUT #2
30 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOuachita National Forest44410 ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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 Silver: 5 producers, 2 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Quartz, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Fisher Mountain TractQuartz, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer1946
Montgomery County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Burch Lode MineQuartzProducer1982
Crystal Pyramid MineQuartzProducer1986, 1987
Fiddler's Ridge Crystal MineQuartzProducer1986, 1989
Fisher Mountain MineQuartzProducer1940
Kimes Crystal AreaQuartzUnknown

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 2022Thunderstorm WindSilver$5,000A tree fell on a car.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindSilver-Trees were down at Denby Point Campground.
August 2008Flash FloodSilver-Water was over U.S. Highway 270 west of Silver.
March 2004HailSilver-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Joplin3.1 miles14
Hurricane Grove3.6 miles15
Rubie4.5 miles15
Ruble4.5 miles15
Sweethome4.7 miles15
Alamo4.7 miles7
Fir (historical)5.2 miles14
Plata6.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78366. 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.