Algoa, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cache Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72112. The Survey maps it on the Amagon quadrangle.

Algoa within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1935 USGS Tuckerman quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Amagon quadrangle1:24000
1967 USGS Tuckerman quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Batesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Algoa between 1993 and 2016, burning about 296 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/incendiarism	5
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
19 September 1999	Smoking	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 April 1996	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	ALLEN
24 March 2004	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 March 2004	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 March 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	HWY 145
11 March 1997	Arson/incendiarism	70 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 November 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	125 acres	Cache River National Wildlife Refuge	BEEDEVILLE FIRE
8 January 2006	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Algoa in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2020	Tornado (EF1)	Algoa	$200,000	Law enforcement reported several power lines down and a few roofs missing from homes between Algoa and Amagon. Farm machinery was tossed into a field.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Algoa	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down some large trees and tore the gutters off a house.
May 2016	Hail	Algoa	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Algoa	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Stringers Mill	1.1 miles	10
Blackville	3.0 miles	10
Balch	3.2 miles	10
Remmel	3.8 miles	11
Amagon	3.9 miles	10
Eightmile (historical)	3.9 miles	10
Cow Lake (historical)	4.6 miles	10
Midway	5.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57257. 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.