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Valley Springs, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72601. It stands on Elm Branch. The Survey maps it on the Everton quadrangle. 183 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,086 feet above sea level.

Valley Springs within Boone County

On record in Valley Springs

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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

35 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Valley Springs between 1997 and 2018, burning about 938 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 burning11
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
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
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1999Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Valley Springs: 3 unknowns, 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Mc Clinton Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Starkey MineLeadPast Producer
Boone County 5-0 Quarry & CrushingStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mcclinton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Unknown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Unknown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valley Springs in 3 storm reports in 1995: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
November 1995Thunderstorm WindValley Springs-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs.
June 1995HailValley Springs-no account filed
November 1995HailValley Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Rally Hill2.1 miles16
Olvey2.7 miles16
Mount Pleasant (historical)2.8 miles13
Pedlo (historical)3.3 miles16
Watkins (historical)3.8 miles13
Bellefonte4.2 miles13
Dugger4.5 miles16
Everton4.6 miles16

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 Valley SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2302494The 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 78643. 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.