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Whitehall, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Galla Rock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72834. It lies near Carden Bottom. The Survey maps it on the Atkins quadrangle.

Whitehall within Yell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

37 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Whitehall between 1997 and 2018, burning about 1,926 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning12
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
4 September 1998Smoking45 acresHolla Bend National Wildlife RefugeHOLLA-1
23 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHolla Bend National Wildlife RefugeLODGE LAKE ROAD
19 September 2004Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burning130 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2012Natural7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yell 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 Whitehall: 5 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Titanium, 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
Black SandsTitaniumPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
Shale PitClayUnknown
Shale PitClayUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Yell County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitehall in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2008FloodWhitehall$150,000Moderate flooding at the Dardanelle stream gage on the Arkansas River occurred for two and a half days. The Arkansas River rose to 36.3 feet, the highest level since May, 1990, and primarily impacted the low land within the levee system. Damages were primarily to agricultural lands and some county roads. Most of the Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge was also flooded with interior roads damaged.

Every storm recorded in Yell 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
Carden Bottoms0.9 miles19
Fowler1.2 miles19
Lakeview1.7 miles19
Cotton Town3.9 miles18
New Neely5.0 miles18
Old Neely5.2 miles19
Elberta8.8 miles21
Prosperity8.9 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57235. 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.