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Stella, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Drytown Township. It lies near Craig Hill. The Survey maps it on the Zion quadrangle.

Stella within Izard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

102 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Stella between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,956 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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 burning40
Arson/incendiarism28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2001Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 1997Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Stella: 9 past producers, 6 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite, Lead. 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
Time StokesIron, Sulfur-Pyrite, LeadOccurrence
Anderson ProspectManganesePast Producer
Bevans ProspectManganeseProspect
Bone ProspectManganesePast Producer1918
H.J.Ray ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Hall ProspectManganesePast Producer1918
Henry King ProspectManganeseProspect
L B Ray ProspectManganesePast Producer1918
M E Wilson ProspectManganesePast Producer1918
Moser ProspectManganesePast Producer

Every working recorded in Izard County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stella in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
March 2020HailStella-Large hail fell between Mt. Pleasant and Melbourne.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindStella-Limbs were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Izard 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
Sage2.6 miles9
Bone Town2.7 miles9
Gid3.7 miles19
Mount Pleasant4.1 miles19
Zion5.1 miles9
Lunenburg5.7 miles10
LaCrosse5.9 miles9
Needmore6.1 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 55200. 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.