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Slaytonville, Arkansas

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72937. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Slaytonville within Sebastian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

88 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Slaytonville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,166 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning20
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2

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 2000Natural20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2005Smoking6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2005Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Slaytonville: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Building Stone QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slaytonville in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 2 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
May 2020Thunderstorm WindSlaytonville-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees in the area of the James Fork Tributary, near Riddle Creek Road and Gap Road.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindSlaytonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
Midland4.7 miles24
Burna4.8 miles24
Montreal4.8 miles24
Doubleday (historical)5.6 miles23
Hackett5.7 miles23
Jenson6.0 miles23
Prairie Creek6.2 miles24
Frog Town6.6 miles24

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 SlaytonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q29094763The 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 58634. 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.