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Woodlawn, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Butler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72007. The Survey maps it on the Wattensaw quadrangle. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Woodlawn within Lonoke County

On record in Woodlawn

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Woodlawn between 1998 and 2017, burning about 433 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 September 2007Arson/incendiarism17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 June 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 June 1998Debris and open burning127 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 2004Misuse of fire by a minor9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 March 2015Debris and open burning32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 February 2015Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lonoke County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodlawn in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn$10,000Many trees were blown down.
January 2019LightningWoodlawn$1,000Lightning struck a house on Bethlehem Rd. causing minor damage. There were no injuries.
March 2026HailWoodlawn-Penny sized hail fell near the community of Woodlawn.
August 2024HailWoodlawn-Nickel sized hail fell in the community of Woodlawn.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn-Trees fell across Highway 236 one mile SSW of Woodlawn, blocking the road.
April 2019Flash FloodWoodlawn-Sheriff's office reported portions of Highway 31 near Woodlawn are flooded. Additionally, numerous back roads across Lonoke County are inundated at this time.
April 2017Flash FloodWoodlawn-Highway 31 flooded with swift moving water over the road.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn-Trees and power lines blown down.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
July 2012HailWoodlawn-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn-no account filed
June 1998HailWoodlawn-no account filed
December 1996Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lonoke 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
Wattensaw1.7 miles14
Eagle Park (historical)1.9 miles14
Oak Grove2.1 miles14
Mount Carmel Estates3.2 miles14
Mount Springs Estates3.8 miles14
Whispering Pines Addition4.0 miles14
Pine Hill Estates4.1 miles14
Cinnamon Acres4.2 miles14

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 WoodlawnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q928365The 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 59098. 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.