Solo, Arkansas

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.

• 1879 USGS Washington quadrangle1:62500
• 1887 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500
• 1889 USGS Marshall #3 quadrangle1:62500
• 1892 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1940 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Smyrna quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Smyrna SW quadrangle1:24000
• 1977 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Solo 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 39 fires within 5 miles of Solo between 1995 and 2020, burning about 650 acres in total. 4 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.

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:

• Gabriel (historical)
• Retta
• Simpson
• Victor
• Laurel (historical)
• Northwood (historical)

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Solo: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Pope County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Solo in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 tornado. 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 Pope 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 73640. 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.