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Bolding, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lapile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71747. The Survey maps it on the Huttig quadrangle.

Bolding within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

60 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Bolding between 1995 and 2019, burning about 595 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
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
9 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined82 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionFELSENTHAL
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural31 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bolding in 1 storm report in 2025: 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
March 2025HailBolding-Quarter size hail reported near Huttig.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Old Lapile1.4 miles18
Lapile2.2 miles16
Dollar Junction2.4 miles18
Huttig3.9 miles18
Felsenthal4.2 miles18
Sawmill5.3 miles16
New Union5.4 miles19
Victoria5.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57405. 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.