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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.

Wiville within Woodruff County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

14 since 1992

Regional 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
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
10 September 1999Debris and open burning119 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 June 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresCache River National Wildlife RefugeTHREE FORKS
11 June 2004Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 April 2001Naturalunder an acreCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexTRACT 224
10 April 2006Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 March 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexNO. 1
14 March 1992Arson/incendiarism56 acresCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexMORRIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodruff County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
PennZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Woodruff County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2010Flash FloodWiville$1,000Arkansas Highway 17 flooded in Wiville.
June 2014Funnel CloudWiville-no account filed
October 2001HailWiville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodruff 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
Beard (historical)2.1 miles13
Howell2.4 miles13
Colona3.0 miles12
Flynn (historical)3.4 miles13
Bulltown3.5 miles12
Tip4.0 miles12
Grays5.4 miles12
Gregory5.4 miles13

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 WivilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q115804844The 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.