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Wayton, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72628. It lies near Haunt Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Murray quadrangle. 148 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,175 feet above sea level.

Wayton 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Wayton between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,408 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism14
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsDEER #1
29 September 1999Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBOUNDARY
28 August 1993Natural9.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National Forestsnot named
19 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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 Wayton: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc. 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
Hudson PropertyLead, ZincPast Producer
JackpotLead, ZincPast Producer
Lamar MineZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wayton in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2012: 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2012Thunderstorm WindWayton$5,000Trees were pushed over.
August 2003HailWayton-no account filed
November 2001HailWayton-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
Crossroad3.5 miles13
Parthenon3.5 miles13
Murray3.6 miles9
Gum Springs5.3 miles13
Diamond Cave5.7 miles13
Deer5.8 miles14
Nail5.8 miles9
Swain5.9 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on WaytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7976890The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 74029. 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.