BlockBeulah, Arkansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Upper Surrounded Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72017. The Survey maps it on the De Valls Bluff quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 17 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.
- 1941 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1971 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:62500
- 1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS De Valls Bluff quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Beulah between 1992 and 2010, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 June 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | GEORGE |
| 29 June 1992 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Central Arkansas Refuges Complex | GEORGE 1 |
| 16 June 2005 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 April 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Cache River National Wildlife Refuge | BO MILLER |
| 9 March 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 March 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Cache River National Wildlife Refuge | GORDY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beulah in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beulah | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plunketts | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Bucks Landing | 3.0 miles | 17 | |
| Brasfield | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Biscoe | 3.6 miles | 17 | |
| Gospoda | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Letchworth | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Yuma (historical) | 5.4 miles | 17 | |
| Hallsville | 6.0 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 77333. 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.