Baxter, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bartholomew Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71638. The Survey maps it on the McGehee South quadrangle.

Baxter within Drew County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1936 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1955 USGS McGehee quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Mc Gehee SW quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Mc Gehee South quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

19 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Baxter between 2002 and 2012, burning about 239 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
13 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	31 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2006	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 March 2007	Debris and open burning	32 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 March 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 February 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 February 2007	Debris and open burning	31 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Drew County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baxter in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 3 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
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Baxter	-	A trained spotter estimated a wind gust of 60 mph near the town of Baxter.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Baxter	-	Trees and power lines were down along Hwy. 35.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Baxter	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and a number of large tree limbs.
March 2014	Hail	Baxter	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Drew 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
Leavits (historical)	2.0 miles	13
Collins	3.6 miles	14
Cominto	7.0 miles	14
Troy (historical)	8.6 miles	13
Jade (historical)	9.0 miles	14
Jerome	9.1 miles	14
Jordan (historical)	9.2 miles	13
Enon	10.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76248. 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.