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Booster, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Shady Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72645. It stands on Truck Wheel Branch. The Survey maps it on the Alread quadrangle.

Booster within Searcy 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

50 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Booster between 1998 and 2018, burning about 2,616 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning10
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
22 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 April 2016Arson/incendiarism60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 April 2006Debris and open burning12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 April 2004Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Searcy County

Storms near this place

10 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Booster in 10 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
September 2014Thunderstorm WindBooster$5,000Trees were blown down.
August 2013Flash FloodBooster$5,000Low-water crossings were flooded after 2 inches of rain fell in one hour.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindBooster$1,000Large limbs were blown down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindBooster$1,000Large limbs were blown down.
August 2023HailBooster-Tennis ball sized hail fell near the community of Woolum from social media image provided by trained spotter via mPING.
March 2022HailBooster-Nickel size hail was reported at Trace Ridge Rd. and Shady Grove Rd.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBooster-Trees were down.
April 2017Heavy RainBooster-The 24 hour rainfall total was 3.40 inches from the Dennard 10 WSW observer.
December 2015Flash FloodBooster-Some county roads off of Hwy 254 were flooded.
May 2013HailBooster-Hail up to penny size fell.

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
Kay3.0 miles16
Watts4.8 miles16
Imo5.2 miles20
Welcome Home6.1 miles20
Noahs7.4 miles15
Wileys Cove7.6 miles15
Bohannon7.6 miles20
Leslie7.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57412. 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.