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White Oak, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Batson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72949. The Survey maps it on the Hunt quadrangle.

White Oak within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of White Oak between 1992 and 2020, burning about 403 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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 burning17
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Natural1

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 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsMAVERICK
20 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use42 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsEAGLE NEST
8 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2011Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of White Oak: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
Unk Quarries 2StonePast Producer
Unk Quarries 2StonePast Producer
Unk Quarries 3StonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Oak in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
September 2010Flash FloodWhite Oak$15,000Flooding occurred in the Horsehead Lake area, causing roads to be under water. Law enforcement officers found that campers in the area were safe and away from the flood waters. Several other county roads along the bottom of the mountains were flooded.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWhite Oak$5,000Trees were blown down in the Horsehead Lake area.
April 2020HailWhite Oak-Dime size hail covered the ground.

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Edna2.8 miles10
Oak Grove2.8 miles10
Linville (historical)3.1 miles10
Hunt3.4 miles10
Batson3.5 miles10
Smeadley (historical)5.4 miles10
Harmony6.7 miles10
Yale6.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 74114. 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.