Stonewall, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Dalton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72450. It stands on Big Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lafe quadrangle.

Stonewall within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1940 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Lafe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Stonewall between 1997 and 2010, burning about 214 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	8
Arson/incendiarism	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	JERUSALEM COMPLEX
17 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 March 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 March 2010	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 March 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 March 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Stonewall: 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bradburn Property	Clay	Occurrence
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stonewall in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2011: 1 hail, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2011	Flood	Stonewall	1 killed, $100,000	Heavy rain during the end of April into the beginning of May caused the Cache River to rise above flood stage. Numerous roads were closed and/or damaged. Some homes sustained minor damage. One man drowned while attempting to check on his flooded home. He became disorientated and could not tell where the road and the flood waters were. He drove his vehicle into a flooded ditch as a result.
April 2009	Hail	Stonewall	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hooker	1.7 miles	14
Lafe	3.4 miles	14
Hillside (historical)	4.6 miles	14
Gainesville	5.8 miles	14
Beech Grove	6.0 miles	14
Paris (historical)	6.7 miles	15
Mollus (historical)	7.7 miles	14
Camp Ground	8.4 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78465. 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.