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Stoverville, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ponca Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72670. The Survey maps it on the Osage SW quadrangle.

Stoverville within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

80 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Stoverville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,004 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning17
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
20 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreBuffalo National RiverRUNNING CREEK
6 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1998Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2012Natural2.3 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGRASSY POINT
8 July 2012Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2012Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2012Arson/incendiarism40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Stoverville: 15 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Lead, Zinc. 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
Ben Heuer PropertyKaolinPast Producer
Davidson ProspectIron, ManganeseProspect
UnkStonePast Producer
BennettZinc, LeadPast Producer
BrewerZinc, LeadPast Producer
Canton MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Chimney Rock MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Cross ProspectManganesePast Producer
KilgoreLead, ZincPast Producer
MmcelhaneySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stoverville in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
April 2022HailStoverville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Ponca1.8 miles14
Beechwood2.2 miles14
George3.4 miles15
Boxley3.8 miles10
Allfriend (historical)5.5 miles15
Shiloh6.0 miles9
Plumlee (historical)6.4 miles14
Compton6.8 miles14

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 Q122556226The 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 58695. 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.