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Artist Point, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in District 13. It lies in ZIP code area 72946. It lies near Cartwright Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Mountainburg quadrangle. It stands 1,614 feet above sea level.

Artist Point within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Artist Point between 1993 and 2020, burning about 467 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 August 2012Natural1.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWARLOOP
27 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionCRA19125465
21 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 April 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National Forestsnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Artist Point in 1 storm report in 1997: 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
January 1997HailArtist Point-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Maddux Spring0.8 miles16
Schaberg1.8 miles16
Winfrey2.2 miles16
Mount Gaylor2.6 miles15
Armada (historical)3.1 miles16
Chester3.3 miles16
Locke4.6 miles16
Mountainburg6.0 miles16

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 Artist PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4801235The 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 70468. 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.