Wiville, Arkansas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cotton Plant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72101. It lies near Nubbin Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Grays quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1939 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:62500
- 1971 USGS Grays quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Wiville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 408 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 119 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Cache River National Wildlife Refuge | THREE FORKS |
| 11 June 2004 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 April 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | TRACT 224 |
| 10 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | NO. 1 |
| 14 March 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 56 acres | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | MORRIS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wiville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn | Zinc | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wiville in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2014: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Flash Flood | Wiville | $1,000 | Arkansas Highway 17 flooded in Wiville. |
| June 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Wiville | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Wiville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beard (historical) | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Howell | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Colona | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Flynn (historical) | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Bulltown | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Tip | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Grays | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Gregory | 5.4 miles | 13 |
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 Wiville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q115804844 | The 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 56473. 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.






