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Social Hill, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lone Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72104. It stands on Blakely Creek. The Survey maps it on the Social Hill quadrangle. It stands 344 feet above sea level.

Social Hill within Hot Spring County

On record in Social Hill

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

144 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Social Hill between 1997 and 2020, burning about 874 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 24 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use24
Smoking9
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Smoking3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Social Hill: 3 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite. 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
Cove CreekBarium-BaritePast Producer
Cook Brothers Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ouachita Gravel WasherSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Acme Brick Co.ClayProducer
UnkClayUnknown
UnkClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Hot Spring County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Social Hill in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2008: 6 hail, 3 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
November 1994Thunderstorm WindSocial Hill$5,000Some trees were blown down.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindSocial Hill-Trees and power lines were down between the junction of Arkansas Highway 84 and Southwest Trail to Possum Trot Road.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindSocial Hill-A few trees were blown down.
March 2008HailSocial Hill-no account filed
May 2005HailSocial Hill-no account filed
March 2002HailSocial Hill-no account filed
May 2001HailSocial Hill-no account filed
September 2000HailSocial Hill-no account filed
January 1999HailSocial Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hot Spring 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
Oak Grove1.2 miles11
Saginaw2.5 miles11
Etta (historical)3.4 miles11
Central4.0 miles12
Antioch4.1 miles11
Elmore (historical)4.5 miles12
Abco4.6 miles12
Walco (historical)5.2 miles12

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 Social HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7550667The 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 78400. 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.