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Zinc, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Zinc Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72601. It lies near Tom Young Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Zinc quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Zinc within Boone County

On record in Zinc

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Zinc fell from 103 to 92 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010103
202092-11 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

96 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Zinc between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,840 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 42 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
Arson/incendiarism42
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
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
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism90 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1997Natural16 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1999Debris and open burning9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Zinc: 19 past producers, 16 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, 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
Crooked Creek Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Saturn PlacerLead, ZincOccurrenceGalena
Bailey MineLeadPast Producer
Boggs MineLeadPast Producer
Buffalo ClaimZinc, LeadOccurrenceUnknown
Coker Hollow MineLeadPast Producer
Elixir MineLeadPast Producer
Frisco MineLeadPast Producer
Ida Lead & Zinc MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Madison MineLeadUnknown

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zinc in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2013: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindZinc$500,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a house and moved another off its foundation.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindZinc$2,000A tree fell on a power line.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindZinc-Trees were blown down.
April 2013HailZinc-no account filed
September 2006HailZinc-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindZinc-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Pleasant Ridge4.2 miles16
Keener4.3 miles15
Winington4.9 miles15
Harmon5.0 miles16
Bergman5.4 miles13
Oregon (historical)5.8 miles13
Pedlo (historical)6.8 miles16
Olvey7.1 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 ZincAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2013897The 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 58929. 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.