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Willow, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Willow Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72084. It stands on Little Cypress Creek. The Survey maps it on the Willow quadrangle.

Willow within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

72 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Willow between 1997 and 2020, burning about 974 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 19 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 burning19
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural8
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
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Smoking3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2011Natural99 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Willow: 6 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willow in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009Flash FloodWillow$100,000Flooding occurred across the county.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWillow-Large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWillow-Three trees were reported down near Arkansas Highway 46.
July 2007Flash FloodWillow-Flooding was reported on Arkansas Highway 9.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWillow-A few trees were blown down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWillow-Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWillow-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree.
July 2013HailWillow-no account filed
October 2004HailWillow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Round Hill2.5 miles8
Tulip6.1 miles8
Wave7.9 miles8
Manning8.1 miles8
Welchs Shop (historical)9.0 miles8
Dalark10.0 miles7
Nix (historical)10.3 miles16
Carthage10.9 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 58896. 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.