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Allendale, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Keevil Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72021. It stands on Little Robe Bayou. The Survey maps it on the De Valls Bluff SE quadrangle.

Allendale within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Allendale between 2000 and 2007, burning about 397 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
21 September 2000Debris and open burning70 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor47 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 July 2006Debris and open burning30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 March 2005Arson/incendiarism18 acresCache River National Wildlife RefugeBULLTOWN
12 November 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexMC FARLAND
12 November 2001Debris and open burning221 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 January 2006Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allendale in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 1 tornado, 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
May 2013Tornado (EF1)Allendale$25,000A brief EF1 tornado uprooted or snapped numerous trees in a cemetery, and an adjacent building suffered roof damage.
June 2021Flash FloodAllendale-A section of Hwy. 302 was closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Keevil1.9 miles15
Bayless2.4 miles15
Dagmar3.6 miles15
Eden3.7 miles15
Lenoir (historical)4.3 miles16
Dobbs Landing4.3 miles15
Jeffries5.6 miles16
Emmons5.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57259. 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.