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West Richwoods, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 5. It lies in ZIP code area 72560. It lies near Collins Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mountain View SW quadrangle. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

West Richwoods within Stone County

On record in West Richwoods

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

51 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of West Richwoods between 1998 and 2020, burning about 537 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
20 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2007Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of West Richwoods: 7 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
UnkStoneProducer
Mountain View PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mountain View PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stone County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stone County PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stone County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Richwoods in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2026: 1 flash flood, 1 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 2013Flash FloodWest Richwoods$10,000Ditches overflowed onto roadways, making several of them impassable. Low water crossings were under water. Widespread street flooding occurred.
April 2026Tornado (EF1)West Richwoods-Storm survey revealed a tornado developed south of Mt. View just|east of AR State Hwy 9 west of Stewart Road northwest of the|community of Hanover. The tornado continued generally east-|southeast crossing Hanover and Luber Roads. The tornado then|moved a more easterly direction toward the intersection of|Misenheimer and Waco Roads, dropping off the plateau crossing AR|State Hwy 5 west of Arbana. The tornado then crossed Iron|Mountain Road, eventually lifting near the intersection of Stone|County Road 273 and Bob Davis Mountain Road southwest of the|Pleasant Grove community. Damage to barns and outbuildings was|noted, along with many trees blown down. This tornado was rated|EF1, with maximum estimated winds of 110 mph and width of|approximately 400 yds.

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
East Richwoods2.4 miles14
Hanover3.0 miles14
Mountain View4.1 miles14
Turkey Creek4.6 miles14
Newnata6.1 miles15
Luber6.3 miles14
Gayler7.0 miles16
Fox7.1 miles15

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 West RichwoodsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7986343The 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 78728. 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.