Warrenton, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Smith Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71639. It stands on Johnny Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tyro quadrangle.

Warrenton within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1935 USGS Rotan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Tyro quadrangle1:24000
1968 USGS Rotan quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

28 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Warrenton between 2001 and 2020, burning about 269 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
21 August 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 2011	Natural	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 July 2014	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	LIN7170415
6 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 June 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 June 2011	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Warrenton: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Mangum Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warrenton in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2013	Tornado (EF1)	Warrenton	$500,000	An EF1 tornado destroyed two mobile homes, one of which rolled over and smashed into a large tree. Two other mobile homes were crushed by falling trees. A church had roof damage, allowing rainwater to pour inside. Windows and doors of the church were broken. Several houses and mobile homes suffered roof damage, some due to falling trees and others from the wind associated with the tornado. Close to three dozen outbuildings and sheds were destroyed. Some of the sheds were overturned. The back wall of a four-car garage was blown down. Several vehicles were damaged. A large tractor shed was blown down onto large farm machinery. Two grain bins were dented in. Many hundreds of trees were snapped off or blown down. Cypress and tupelo trees on Bayou Bartholomew were snapped off.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Warrenton	-	A few trees were blown down in the near the community of Warrenton.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Garrett Bridge	1.9 miles	12
Gourd	3.3 miles	13
Tyro	3.3 miles	12
Oakdale (historical)	3.6 miles	12
Rose Hill	3.9 miles	13
Avery	6.3 miles	13
Garnett	6.3 miles	12
Todd (historical)	7.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 60333. 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.