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Wolf Bayou, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Township 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72523. It lies near Schoolhouse Hill. The Survey maps it on the Drasco quadrangle.

Wolf Bayou within Cleburne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

36 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Wolf Bayou between 1997 and 2020, burning about 434 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Natural1

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
9 September 2006Smoking10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2012Debris and open burning21 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wolf Bayou: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Cleburne County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolf Bayou in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2024Heavy RainWolf Bayou-A 24 hour rainfall total of 5.00 inches was measured at Wolf Bayou.
August 2023HailWolf Bayou-Golf ball sized hail fell near the town of Wolf Bayou.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWolf Bayou-Large tree limbs downed.
May 2003HailWolf Bayou-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cleburne 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
Drasco2.5 miles15
Fivemile2.9 miles15
Concord3.4 miles17
Banner4.3 miles17
Ida4.7 miles15
Almond6.6 miles17
Tumbling Shoals8.3 miles15
Tyler (historical)8.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78797. 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.