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Blakemore, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Pettus Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72046. The Survey maps it on the England quadrangle. It stands 220 feet above sea level.

Blakemore within Lonoke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Blakemore between 2000 and 2016, burning about 110 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning2

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
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Debris and open burning47 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 March 2005Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 February 2016Arson/incendiarism17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 October 2015Debris and open burning25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lonoke County

Storms near this place

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blakemore in 13 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
January 2020Thunderstorm WindBlakemore$100,000Several power poles were snapped. Several roofs sustained major damage and a metal farm shop was completely destroyed.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindBlakemore$5,000Sheet metal was blown off a building.
September 2008Flash FloodBlakemore$5,000Roadways were flooded in Blakemore.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindBlakemore$1,000Large limbs were blown down.
May 2024HailBlakemore-Ping-pong ball sized hail fell in the town of Blakemore.
June 2021Tornado (EFU)Blakemore-A tornado was captured on video, but occurred over an open field that became flooded. No damage was observed. The placement and length of tornado was estimated from the video.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBlakemore-Limbs and trees were reported down near Blakemore.
July 2016HailBlakemore-Dime to nickel size hail and estimated 50 mph winds were experienced. Small limbs were down.
August 2013Funnel CloudBlakemore-Several photographs showed at least one funnel cloud over the southern part of Lonoke County.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindBlakemore-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees.
March 2014HailBlakemore-no account filed
May 2010HailBlakemore-no account filed
February 2009HailBlakemore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lonoke 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
Seaton3.8 miles15
Coy4.6 miles15
Boyd (historical)5.1 miles15
Ryan5.1 miles15
Pettus5.3 miles15
Culler5.4 miles15
Tomberlin6.2 miles15
England6.2 miles15

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 BlakemoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4924607The 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 61178. 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.