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Appleton, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 4. It lies in ZIP code area 72823. It stands on Anderson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jerusalem quadrangle. 399 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,637 feet above sea level.

Appleton within Pope County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

67 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Appleton between 1995 and 2020, burning about 534 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 13 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking1

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/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Debris and open burning107 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionCONWAY
3 September 2006Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1997Debris and open burning35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Appleton in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 4 hail, 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
June 2012Thunderstorm WindAppleton$25,000Numerous trees were blown down and two barns had damage to their doors and roofs.
April 2017HailAppleton-no account filed
April 2002HailAppleton-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindAppleton-no account filed
April 1998HailAppleton-no account filed
March 1997HailAppleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Welcome2.3 miles16
Buttermilk2.9 miles16
Leta (historical)3.8 miles16
Walnut Grove4.8 miles16
Caglesville5.2 miles16
Rock Springs5.4 miles16
Hector6.1 miles16
Oak Grove6.4 miles17

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 AppletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4781374The 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 76184. 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.