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Abbott, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1987. It stands in District 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72944. It lies near Coop Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Abbott quadrangle. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Abbott within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

106 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Abbott between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,325 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning31
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural4
Smoking2
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
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2003Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2006Debris and open burning210 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott 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 Abbott: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Sebastian County PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Abbott in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2008: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
October 2007Flash FloodAbbott-Flooding was reported on roads off of Arkansas Highway 378, including areas around Roadrunner Road and Persimmon Hill.
May 2008HailAbbott-no account filed
April 2002HailAbbott-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAbbott-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindAbbott-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Bluff Ridge (historical)3.0 miles22
Kings Creek (historical)3.8 miles22
Lewis3.9 miles22
Boothe4.5 miles22
Elm Park5.3 miles22
Evening Shade9.1 miles31
Hon9.3 miles31
Bryan9.7 miles31

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 AbbottAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964828The 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 70403. 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.