BlockArkansas Post, Arkansas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Arkansas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72055. It sits by Ecores Rouges. The Survey maps it on the Arkansas Post quadrangle. It stands 177 feet above sea level.
On record in Arkansas Post
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Arkansas Post National MemorialNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.3 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1935 USGS Gillett quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Arkansas Post quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS De Witt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Arkansas Post between 2004 and 2006, burning about 28 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 May 2006 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 March 2004 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arkansas Post in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2009 | Tornado (EF2) | Arkansas Post | $850,000 | A tornado began in southeastern Arkansas County, northeast of Arkansas Post. Initially, the tornado was weak and its track was mostly over open farm land. The porch of an old mobile home, being used as a hunting camp, was torn off. The tornado soon moved into the White River National Wildlife Refuge and intensified greatly. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that 1750 acres of timber were destroyed within the refuge. Most of these old-growth trees were snapped off. Three families were camping at Jacks Bay in the refuge. No one was injured, but the campers were unable to exit the refuge because Jacks Bay Road, the only road out of that section of the refuge, was blocked by fallen trees. It took several hours for county, state, and federal crews to reopen the road. Altogether, they had to cut trees off 2537 feet of roadway. A few of the falling trees knocked down power lines. The tornado crossed the White River, into Phillips County, east-northeast of Weber. ||This tornado was destined to be one for the record books. The total path length in Arkansas and Phillips counties was by far the longest tornado track ever recorded in Arkansas during the month of July. Also, it was only the eighth tornado in Arkansas history to achieve a rating of F2/EF2 in the month of July. |
| May 2011 | Flood | Arkansas Post | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2015 | Hail | Arkansas Post | $5,000 | Wind driven baseball size hail destroyed the siding and broke several windows on a mobile home. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arkansas Post | $1,000 | Large limbs were blown down. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arkansas Post | $500 | Thunderstorm winds blew down some tree limbs. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arkansas Post | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs. |
| March 2015 | Hail | Arkansas Post | - | no account filed |
| March 2015 | Hail | Arkansas Post | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas (historical) | 0.2 miles | 12 | |
| Osotouy (historical) | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Fish Dock (historical) | 6.5 miles | 12 | |
| Gillett | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Medina | 8.7 miles | 12 | |
| Tichnor | 8.9 miles | 12 | |
| Prairie Landing | 9.1 miles | 16 | |
| Buffo (historical) | 9.2 miles | 12 |
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 Arkansas Post | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4791835 | The 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 66948. 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.