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Walnut, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72854. It stands on Walnut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Swain quadrangle.

Walnut within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Walnut between 1993 and 2020, burning about 243 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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/incendiarism6.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCOLE CREEK
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGOBBLER'S KNOB #2
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGOBBLER'S KNOB
1 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsNAIL
26 April 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsROSSETTA
18 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWALNUT
16 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National Forestsnot named
12 April 1998Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsLITTLE ROUND MT.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walnut in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 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
May 2009Tornado (EF0)Walnut$10,000Trees were knocked down and a small shed was destroyed.
October 2006Flash FloodWalnut-Water was flowing across Walnut Road.
March 2020HailWalnut-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Edwards Junction4.0 miles9
Limestone4.0 miles9
Swain4.2 miles9
Nail4.2 miles9
Fallsville5.7 miles10
Loafer6.6 miles10
Mossville7.4 miles10
Arbaugh7.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78677. 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.