Snowball, Arkansas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

• Gates-Helm Farmlisted 1993
• Snowball Gymnasiumlisted 2020

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.

• 1892 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1939 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1941 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
• 1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Snowball quadrangle1:24000
• 1983 USGS Mountain View quadrangle1:100000
• 1984 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
• 1992 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Snowball between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,182 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 101 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Blanco
• Buroak
• Slicker (historical)
• Zeb (historical)
• Bear Creek
• Canaan

Every fire recorded in Searcy County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snowball in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2011: 4 hail, 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.

Every storm recorded in Searcy County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78399. 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.

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.