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Spring Valley, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brush Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72764. It lies near Been Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Spring Valley quadrangle. It stands 1,306 feet above sea level.

Spring Valley within Washington County

On record in Spring Valley

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

10 surveys from 14 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

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Spring Valley between 1997 and 2020, burning about 295 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2012Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 1998Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 July 2006Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Valley in 3 storm reports in 1995: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1995Thunderstorm WindSpring Valley-no account filed
May 1995HailSpring Valley-no account filed
May 1995HailSpring Valley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Mayfield3.0 miles14
Pilgrims Rest3.2 miles14
War Eagle Cove3.4 miles14
Blue Springs Village4.3 miles19
Rochelle Riviera4.7 miles19
Sonora5.9 miles19
Goshen6.0 miles14
Beav-O-Rama6.9 miles19

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 Spring ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7580720The 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 78435. 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.