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Violet Hill, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Violet Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72584. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle. 36 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Violet Hill within Izard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

118 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Violet Hill between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,963 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism35
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism23 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Violet Hill: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
L.C.Crutchfield DepositIronOccurrence
Black Rock Sand & Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Izard County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Violet Hill in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 2001: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
November 1993Thunderstorm WindViolet Hill$5,000Several trees were blown down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindViolet Hill-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large road sign.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindViolet Hill-no account filed
April 1996HailViolet Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Izard 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
New Liberty2.0 miles10
Jett (historical)2.4 miles10
Larkin3.2 miles9
Franklin3.7 miles10
LaCrosse4.4 miles9
Brockwell4.6 miles10
Wiseman5.7 miles10
Twin Bridges5.9 miles10

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 Violet HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7933243The 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 78662. 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.