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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.

West Hartford within Sebastian County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

95 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2012Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Debris and open burning14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1997Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOuachita National ForestPAINT CAN
6 August 2011Smoking6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chandler Clay MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Tornado (EF1)West Hartford$100,000A tornado destroyed a large barn and uprooted trees. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was about 95 mph.
May 2020Tornado (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.

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
Apex1.4 miles21
Hartford2.0 miles23
Patterson2.7 miles21
Frog Town3.8 miles24
Prairie Creek4.6 miles24
Midland6.8 miles24
Burna7.3 miles24
Slaytonville7.5 miles23

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.