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Witcherville, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72940. The Survey maps it on the Greenwood quadrangle.

Witcherville within Sebastian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

103 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Witcherville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 587 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Debris and open burning27
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking5
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2000Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2005Smoking25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this place

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Witcherville in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 8 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023HailWitcherville$30,000Golf ball size damaged homes and vehicles.
February 2009HailWitcherville$15,000no account filed
April 2015HailWitcherville$10,000no account filed
January 2000Thunderstorm WindWitcherville$2,500Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and blew over chicken pens.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindWitcherville$100Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs.
March 2016HailWitcherville-no account filed
March 2009HailWitcherville-no account filed
January 1999HailWitcherville-no account filed
April 1998HailWitcherville-no account filed
October 1993HailWitcherville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
Dill Place (historical)2.3 miles24
Dayton2.6 miles22
Big Rock2.7 miles22
Fox Hill3.2 miles24
Huntington3.8 miles24
Crossroads3.9 miles22
Arkola4.3 miles24
Montreal4.7 miles24

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 WitchervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48862072The 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 78793. 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.

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.