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Venus, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in North Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72776. It stands on Venus Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Weathers quadrangle.

Venus within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

25 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Venus between 1999 and 2020, burning about 673 acres in total. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural1
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
2 August 2012Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 July 2014Debris and open burning70 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMAD18797965
22 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2006Arson/incendiarism80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 April 2001Arson/incendiarism60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 April 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 April 2006Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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 Venus: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
E HollandSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Venus in 2 storm reports in 1996: 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1996Thunderstorm WindVenus2 hurt, $70,000no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindVenus$15,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Jordan (historical)3.8 miles8
Reynolds3.9 miles9
Witter4.3 miles8
Weathers5.0 miles9
Townsley (historical)5.4 miles9
Red Star5.6 miles9
Boston5.8 miles9
Loy6.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 73961. 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.