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Bidville, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 13. It lies in ZIP code area 72959. It lies near Bowles Gap Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Bidville quadrangle.

Bidville within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Bidville between 1992 and 2016, burning about 3,794 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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/incendiarism10
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBOWLES CAR FIRE
7 August 2006Naturalunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWHITE LIGHTNING
22 August 2012Natural2.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsPOTATO KNOB
22 August 2006Natural1.0 acresOuachita National ForestBIG CEDAR
4 July 2013Fireworks1.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWHITE ROCK
18 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined32 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsRATTLESNAKE
9 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWHITE ROCK
28 April 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsWHITE ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bidville in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2006: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
February 2005Thunderstorm WindBidville-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindBidville-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down several large tree limbs.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindBidville-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and a power pole.
March 2006HailBidville-no account filed
February 2005HailBidville-no account filed
May 2003HailBidville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Winfrey6.3 miles16
Locke6.7 miles16
Mount Gaylor7.1 miles15
Maddux Spring8.2 miles16
Artist Point8.4 miles16
Schaberg10.0 miles16
Chester11.0 miles16
Armada (historical)11.4 miles16

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 BidvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48861817The 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 70650. 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.