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Thola, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Oxley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72680. It lies near Lee Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Landis quadrangle.

Thola within Searcy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

88 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Thola between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2,100 acres in total. None started naturally. 44 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
Arson/incendiarism44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Debris and open burning13
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2011Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2012Arson/incendiarism13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2011Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2006Arson/incendiarism29 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy 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 Thola: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
UnkStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Searcy County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thola in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
June 2023HailThola-Grapefruit sized hail was confirmed with a measurement in Thola.

Every storm recorded in Searcy 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
Campbell2.7 miles15
Oxley3.4 miles15
Landis3.7 miles15
Elberta4.6 miles15
Fairview5.1 miles15
Shilo (historical)5.3 miles15
Begley (historical)5.5 miles15
Rock Springs6.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 73851. 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.