BlockBard, Arkansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bagwell Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72450. It stands on Hurricane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Paragould East quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1940 USGS Marmaduke quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Marmaduke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Marmaduke quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Paragould East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bard in 2004, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 February 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bard in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Bard | $300,000 | This tornado developed south of U.S. Highway 412 and west of County Road 934. The tornado overturned a center pivot irrigation system. As it crossed Highway 412, it damaged an industrial building and a grain bin. West of Highway 119, the tornado damaged trees, storage buildings, and a mobile home. The last damage was observed to trees along Highway 119. Peak winds were estimated at 90 mph. |
| June 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Bard | $120,000 | A tornado touched down just north of U.S. Highway 412, about 4 miles east of Paragould. The tornado overturned a semi-truck on Highway 412. Two homes, one business and one barn on the south side of the highway sustained roof damage. Windows were also blown out. The tornado continued on a south-southeast path and caused severe damage to a single wide mobile home along County Road 932. The entire roof was blown off and more than half of the walls were knocked down. A second single wide mobile home along County Road 905 sustained partial roof damage. A business size metal storage building along County Road 905 sustained significant roof damage and a steel carport was destroyed. Sheet metal from the storage building was found in cornfields up to a mile away on the track. Several trees were uprooted and branches were knocked down all along the track. The tornado lifted in a corn field, a quarter mile east of County Road 932. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| Bertig | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Lake Side | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Morning Star | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Coffman | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| Twin Oaks | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Halliday | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Cotton Belt | 4.7 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57327. 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.