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Apt, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72404. The Survey maps it on the Jonesboro quadrangle.

Apt within Craighead County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Apt between 1998 and 2020, burning about 151 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Smoking3
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
26 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 July 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 February 2016Debris and open burning12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 February 2016Smoking98 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 February 2016Smoking4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 November 1999Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 October 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Craighead County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Apt: 11 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Jonesboro Brick CoClayUnknown
Jonesboro PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Craighead County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Apt in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 hail. 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 2016HailApt-Quarter size hail reported in south Jonesboro.

Every storm recorded in Craighead 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
Fallis1.0 miles11
Ridge2.0 miles9
Nettleton3.3 miles11
Valley View3.8 miles11
Cary3.8 miles9
Doss (historical)4.0 miles11
Hergett4.3 miles10
Jonesboro5.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57276. 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.