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Brawley, Arkansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72958. The Survey maps it on the Horseshoe Mountain quadrangle.

Brawley within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Brawley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,302 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 20 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/incendiarism20
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony6

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 2000Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresOuachita National ForestBRUSHY HOLLOW
27 September 2003Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOuachita National ForestDENTON CREEK
18 September 2005Debris and open burning6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use146 acresOuachita National Forest400
11 September 2002Arson/incendiarism77 acresOuachita National Forest515
3 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1995Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOuachita National Forestnot named
27 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use43 acresOuachita National ForestSAW FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brawley in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2013: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 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
June 2011Flash FloodBrawley$10,000Numerous roadways were under water and low-water crossings were flooded in the Lake Hinkle area. Jones Creek Rd. was mostly under water.
April 2010HailBrawley$10,000Golf ball size hail fell in the Lake Hinkle area.
August 2013Flash FloodBrawley$5,000Water was over some roads.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindBrawley$1,000Large limbs were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Sensation (historical)2.4 miles20
Morgan Springs2.8 miles21
Beauchamp4.1 miles20
Cauthron4.7 miles21
Gipson5.0 miles21
Bates5.4 miles21
Weeks5.9 miles21
Oliver6.0 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 70805. 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.