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Blick, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Nichols Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72030. The Survey maps it on the Cleveland quadrangle.

Blick within Conway County

On record in Blick

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

78 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Blick between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,109 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 23 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning17
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use224 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conway County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Blick: 1 past producer. 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, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Conway County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blick in 1 storm report in 2022: 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 2022HailBlick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Conway 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
Cleveland2.6 miles16
Lost Corner3.4 miles16
Lanty3.4 miles17
Wonderview4.1 miles17
Lick Mountain4.2 miles17
Sunnyside4.3 miles17
McClaren4.3 miles17
Robertsville4.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 66178. 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.