West Hartford, Arkansas
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72938. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle.
On record in West Hartford
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 1 record
Sebastian County Road 4G Bridgelisted 1995
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1887 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:62500
- 1890 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1943 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
95 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of West Hartford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,217 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 33 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/incendiarism | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 14 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Ouachita National Forest | PAINT CAN |
| 6 August 2011 | Smoking | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 17 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Hartford: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chandler Clay Mine | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Hartford in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 2 tornado. 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 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | West Hartford | $100,000 | A tornado destroyed a large barn and uprooted trees. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was about 95 mph. |
| May 2020 | Tornado (EFU) | West Hartford | - | A brief tornado developed in heavily-wooded terrain in southern Sebastian County. The tornado produced a tornadic debris signature on the KSRX WSR-88D, which was likely the result of tree damage, given the fact it occurred in dense forest. The area where the tornado developed was inaccessible by road, therefore the tornado was rated EF-unknown, since the damage could not be reviewed by a survey team. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apex | 1.4 miles | 21 | |
| Hartford | 2.0 miles | 23 | |
| Patterson | 2.7 miles | 21 | |
| Frog Town | 3.8 miles | 24 | |
| Prairie Creek | 4.6 miles | 24 | |
| Midland | 6.8 miles | 24 | |
| Burna | 7.3 miles | 24 | |
| Slaytonville | 7.5 miles | 23 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58851. 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.











