West Helena, Arkansas

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 7 records

• Denison Houselisted 1996
• Faust Houselisted 1996
• Gemmill-Faust Houselisted 1996
• Myers Houselisted 1996
• Nelson Houselisted 1996
• Chicago Mill Company Office Buildinglisted 1996
• Helena Aero Tech Hangarslisted 2021

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.

• 1939 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500
• 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Latour quadrangle1:62500
• 1982 USGS West Helena quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of West Helena between 1992 and 2015, burning about 141 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Belser (historical)
• Huma
• Holiday Hills
• Midland Heights
• Pillar
• Wycamp

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of West Helena: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Every working recorded in Phillips County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Helena in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2008: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Phillips County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58852. 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.