Belcher, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Dogwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72060. The Survey maps it on the Jasmine quadrangle.

Belcher within White County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1932 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500
1935 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Jasmine quadrangle1:24000
1967 USGS Kensett quadrangle1:62500
1986 USGS Searcy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Jasmine quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Belcher between 2001 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
4 August 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 March 2006	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 October 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 October 2001	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 January 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belcher in 2 storm reports in 2018: 2 flash flood. 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
February 2018	Flash Flood	Belcher	-	Highway 11 at Fletcher Ellis Rd. was closed due to high water.
February 2018	Flash Flood	Belcher	-	Frank Senko Rd. at Highway 11 was closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in White 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
Hicksville (historical)	1.4 miles	12
Egbert (historical)	2.4 miles	13
Showalters Corner	2.7 miles	12
Dogwood	2.9 miles	13
Griffithville	3.7 miles	13
Ellen (historical)	4.3 miles	13
Walker	5.4 miles	13
Happy	6.2 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 56924. 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.