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Walnut Grove, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Craig Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72031. It lies near West Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Scotland quadrangle.

Walnut Grove within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Grove between 1998 and 2020, burning about 761 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined27
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural1
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 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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 Walnut Grove: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walnut Grove in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWalnut Grove$5,000Trees were blown down on Arkansas Highway 95 between Clinton and Scotland.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWalnut Grove$1,000Large limbs were blown down.
April 2021Flash FloodWalnut Grove-Massey Mountain Road was flooded from heavy rain.
April 2021Flash FloodWalnut Grove-Water was covering portions of Hwy. 95 West.

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Butter Creek (historical)1.4 miles15
Buzzard Roost (historical)2.5 miles15
Gladys (historical)3.0 miles15
Pine Mountain (historical)3.3 miles15
Shake Rag (historical)3.6 miles15
Culpepper3.8 miles15
Scotland3.8 miles15
Crabtree4.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78680. 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.