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Bexar, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cleveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72576. The Survey maps it on the Byron quadrangle. It stands 886 feet above sea level.

Bexar within Fulton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

94 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Bexar between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,979 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 32 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 burning34
Arson/incendiarism32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
7 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use45 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burning60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionFUL28031383
20 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionIZA27655739

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bexar: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bexar in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBexar$15,000Trees were blown down, with one of the trees damaging the roof of a house. A tree that was uprooted pulled a shed off the ground.
April 2020HailBexar-Quarter size hail was reported south of Viola in Fulton County. Time was estimated from radar.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBexar-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees.
May 2011Funnel CloudBexar-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindBexar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Mitchell2.7 miles16
Byron3.2 miles11
Wild Cherry3.6 miles16
Union4.4 miles11
Mount Pleasant5.8 miles11
Elizabeth6.1 miles16
Shady Grove7.1 miles11
Wheeling7.4 miles11

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 BexarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4899767The 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 57371. 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.