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Blanco, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Calf Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72675. It lies in Blanco Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Snowball quadrangle.

Blanco within Searcy County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 19 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

199 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Blanco between 1994 and 2020, burning about 13,455 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 109 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/incendiarism109
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Debris and open burning21
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBuffalo National RiverSAPLING
2 August 2012Natural1.2 acresBuffalo National RiverMCCUTCHEON GAP SOUTH
24 July 2011Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresBuffalo National RiverHANGOVER BLUFF
9 June 2011Arson/incendiarism97 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 June 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBuffalo National RiverBUCKET FIR
6 May 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBuffalo National RiverUNDERGROUND WF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blanco in 1 storm report in 2009: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2009Thunderstorm WindBlanco$5,000A few trees were blown down across Arkansas Highway 74 west of Dongola.

Every storm recorded in Searcy 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
Snowball1.6 miles19
Zeb (historical)2.4 miles19
Buroak2.4 miles19
Dongola3.2 miles19
Marsena3.5 miles19
Slicker (historical)3.8 miles19
Hall (historical)4.1 miles20
Silver Hill4.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76375. 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.