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Woolsey, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Crawford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72774. It stands on Winn Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Fork quadrangle. It stands 1,362 feet above sea level.

Woolsey within Washington County

On record in Woolsey

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

9 surveys from 17 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

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Woolsey between 1998 and 2020, burning about 194 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Woolsey: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
UnkLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
West Fork Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woolsey in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 1 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindWoolsey-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
July 2015Flash FloodWoolsey-Portions of Winn Creek Road south of West Fork were flooded and impassable.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Pitkin Corner0.3 miles17
West Fork2.9 miles17
Brentwood3.7 miles15
Blackburn5.5 miles15
Hogeye5.8 miles16
Winslow6.1 miles15
Wyola6.4 miles15
Onda6.7 miles16

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 WoolseyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8033922The 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 78809. 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.