Athelstan, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Little River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72370. The Survey maps it on the Etowah quadrangle. It stands 230 feet above sea level.

Athelstan within Mississippi County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1939 USGS Evadale quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Evadale quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Etowah quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Athelstan in 1999, burning about 35 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	1

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
6 August 1999	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mississippi County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Athelstan in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Athelstan	$10,000	Some trees & power lines were knocked down.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Athelstan	$5,000	An irrigation pivot was overturned.
October 2022	Hail	Athelstan	-	Measured hail of 1.25 inches fell in Etowah.

Every storm recorded in Mississippi 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Carrol Corner	2.1 miles	9
Eastview	3.1 miles	9
Three Way	3.5 miles	9
Etowah	3.6 miles	9
Shippen	4.2 miles	9
Keiser	4.5 miles	9
West Ridge	4.6 miles	11
Pace	4.7 miles	9

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 Athelstan	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4813335	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 57285. 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.