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Walnut Hill, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Roane Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71826. The Survey maps it on the Bradley quadrangle.

Walnut Hill within Lafayette County

On record in Walnut Hill

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 17 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

79 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Hill between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,715 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 24 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
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning19
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Walnut Hill: 2 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

Every working recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walnut Hill in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 3 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
May 1994Thunderstorm WindWalnut Hill$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees along Highway 160 near Walnut Hill.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindWalnut Hill-Multiple trees were blown down onto vehicles at a baseball field just west of Bradley.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindWalnut Hill-Trees downed near County Road 2 and Highway 160 East.
August 2016Flash FloodWalnut Hill-Portions of County Road 9 north of Bradley was flooded.

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Bradley1.7 miles17
Gin City2.1 miles17
Kizer3.3 miles17
Grants3.5 miles15
Burton Mill5.1 miles15
Canfield5.7 miles15
Pleasant Valley6.8 miles15
Canale7.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78684. 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.