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Bass, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Polk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72655. It lies near Lost Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Eula quadrangle. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Bass within Newton County

On record in Bass

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 20 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

50 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Bass between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,976 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
31 August 1998Smoking6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2012Natural5.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsICELEDO
13 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCOPPER HEAD
21 June 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2011Natural12 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsTHRONE
4 April 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bass: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Lead. 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
Turkey Fat MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Lost Mountain MineLead, ZincPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Upper Cave CreekLead, ZincPast Producer
Z HudsonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bass in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
December 2013Heavy RainBass-Rainfall totaled 2.75 inches in 3 hours.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindBass-Thunderstorm winds snapped off the tops of several trees. One tree fell onto a nearby house, causing some minor roof damage.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindBass-Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees and damaged a few houses.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Cave Creek2.0 miles20
Mount Judea3.5 miles14
Flat3.9 miles20
Dickey Junction5.1 miles21
Vendor5.2 miles14
Piercetown5.8 miles14
Carver6.1 miles14
Holt (historical)6.5 miles15

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 BassAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4867885The 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 70527. 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.