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Antioch, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Antioch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71941. It stands on Antioch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Social Hill quadrangle.

Antioch within Hot Spring County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

144 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Antioch between 1997 and 2019, burning about 980 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 30 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 burning49
Arson/incendiarism30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use24
Smoking7
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2012Arson/incendiarism60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring 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 Antioch: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cook Brothers Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hot Spring County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Antioch in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2013: 2 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
March 1996Thunderstorm WindAntioch$200,000no account filed
February 2013Thunderstorm WindAntioch$2,000Several trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Hot Spring 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
Saginaw2.8 miles11
Sanders (historical)3.4 miles7
De Roche3.9 miles7
Social Hill4.1 miles11
Midway4.2 miles11
Oak Grove5.1 miles11
Etta (historical)5.9 miles11
Caney6.0 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57271. 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.