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Vinity Corner, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Gum Springs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72143. It stands on Lawrence Branch. The Survey maps it on the Walker quadrangle.

Vinity Corner within White County

On record in Vinity Corner

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

8 surveys from 13 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

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Vinity Corner between 1998 and 2020, burning about 428 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
29 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2006Debris and open burning58 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vinity Corner in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 flash flood. 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
February 2018Flash FloodVinity Corner-Bayou Rd. was closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in White 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
Defiance (historical)2.0 miles13
Walker4.1 miles13
Dogwood4.7 miles13
McRae4.8 miles9
Garner4.8 miles9
Egbert (historical)5.2 miles13
Griffithville6.0 miles13
Conant6.4 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122560347The 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 57225. 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.

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.