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Spotville, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Village Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71753. It stands on Slow Motion Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spotville quadrangle.

Spotville within Columbia County

On record in Spotville

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

7 surveys from 12 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

47 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Spotville between 1997 and 2019, burning about 669 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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 burning9
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
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
4 September 1998Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Arson/incendiarism24 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Spotville: 1 past producer. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spotville in 1 storm report in 2019: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2019Thunderstorm WindSpotville-Three pine trees and one large oak tree were downed near Highway 82 in the Marysville community near the Union/Columbia County line.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Talley3.4 miles12
Village Junction4.4 miles12
Damascus4.9 miles12
Atlanta5.2 miles13
Village5.3 miles12
Noxobe5.4 miles12
Tide Water6.5 miles13
Calhoun7.4 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122559063The 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 58674. 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.