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Timbo, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 2. It lies in ZIP code area 72680. It stands on Timbo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fox quadrangle. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Timbo within Stone County

On record in Timbo

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 2 records

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

38 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Timbo between 1999 and 2020, burning about 2,042 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
20 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism134 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 April 2006Debris and open burning466 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionHAPPY HOLLOW
2 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Timbo: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnkStoneProducer
UnkStoneProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stone County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Timbo in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 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 2011Thunderstorm WindTimbo$10,000Trees were blown down.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindTimbo$5,000Trees were blown down along Arkansas 66.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindTimbo$3,000Several trees were blown down.
June 2023HailTimbo-Tea cup sized hail fell in Timbo.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindTimbo-Power lines and trees were blown down on Ramsey Cemetery Rd.
March 2007HailTimbo-Golfball size hail fell for a few minutes from 0.5 mile north of Timbo to Fifty Six.
June 2011HailTimbo-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindTimbo-no account filed
May 2003HailTimbo-no account filed
January 2002HailTimbo-no account filed
June 2002HailTimbo-no account filed
February 2001Thunderstorm WindTimbo-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindTimbo-no account filed
May 1998HailTimbo-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindTimbo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
Mozart2.4 miles15
Alco2.9 miles15
Big Springs3.1 miles15
Onia3.4 miles15
Pleasant Hill3.4 miles15
Newnata3.7 miles15
Harness5.1 miles15
Flag5.4 miles15

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 TimboAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7804743The 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 78559. 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.