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Village, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Village Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71753. The Survey maps it on the Village quadrangle.

Village within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

74 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Village between 1997 and 2018, burning about 425 acres in total. 2 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 burning15
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural2
Smoking2
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
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Village: 3 past producers. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Village in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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 2016Tornado (EF0)Village$25,000An EF-0 tornado touched down near the intersection of County Road 294 and Highway 82 east of Magnolia, where it damaged several trees and snapped numerous limbs. It remained on the ground for just over one mile where it snapped a large oak tree along County Road 34 before lifting. A large barn just south along County Road 34 also collapsed due to the rear flank downdraft winds associated with the storm. Maximum winds from this tornado were estimated near 74 mph.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindVillage-Trees were blown down along Highway 82 near the Union County line.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindVillage-Trees were downed across Hwy. 82 at the Columbia and Union County line.
May 1998Funnel CloudVillage-Viewed by public and trained sheriff deputy storm spotter.
March 2010HailVillage-no account filed
March 2000HailVillage-no account filed
April 1996HailVillage-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Village Junction1.0 miles12
Damascus1.9 miles12
Ebenezer2.6 miles12
Snipe4.2 miles12
Calhoun Junction5.1 miles14
Lydesdale5.2 miles12
Spotville5.3 miles12
Laughlin5.6 miles12

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 VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28153596The 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 58804. 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.