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Walnut Grove, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dota Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72579. The Survey maps it on the Charlotte quadrangle.

Walnut Grove within Independence County

On record in Walnut Grove

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

41 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Grove between 1997 and 2020, burning about 682 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural3
Smoking2
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
5 September 1999Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2012Natural43 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2012Natural49 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 1997Natural15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Independence 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 Walnut Grove: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Carolyn NewmanManganeseOccurrence
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Independence County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walnut Grove in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2009: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2009Flash FloodWalnut Grove$10,000Roads were flooded between Cord and Newark.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWalnut Grove-Thunderstorm winds downed a number of large tree limbs.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Walnut Grove-A weak tornado touched down briefly near Walnut Grove in Independence County. The tornado caused only some minor tree damage.

Every storm recorded in Independence 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
Hazel Grove2.8 miles12
Cord2.8 miles12
Dota3.0 miles11
Charlotte3.1 miles11
Dowdy4.4 miles12
Pleasant Hill4.5 miles11
Lockheart (historical)5.5 miles11
Mount Carmel7.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57229. 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.