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Antioch, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rankin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72070. It stands on Greathouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thornburg quadrangle.

Antioch within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

116 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Antioch between 1996 and 2020, burning about 994 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined37
Debris and open burning34
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural8
Smoking2
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
8 September 2012Natural10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Antioch in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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 2013Thunderstorm WindAntioch$5,000Trees were blown down.
February 2019Flash FloodAntioch-Highway 300 was closed due to flash flooding. Water was overflowing the nearby Harris Brake Lake.
February 2018FloodAntioch-Arkansas DOT reported Highway 300 at Log Mile 2.5 blocked due to high water.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAntioch-Trees were blown down in the area around Harris Brake.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Oak Grove2.4 miles16
Thornburg3.0 miles15
Bellevue (historical)3.5 miles16
Moab (historical)3.9 miles17
Rankin (historical)3.9 miles16
Perryville4.0 miles18
Sweet Home4.4 miles18
Pleasant Valley4.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 70449. 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.