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Brentwood, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in Crawford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72959. It stands on London Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brentwood quadrangle. It stands 1,483 feet above sea level.

Brentwood within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Brentwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 330 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism2

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
7 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionWAS14482574
5 April 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionWAS17089184
16 April 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brentwood in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 4 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
April 2024Thunderstorm WindBrentwood$25,000Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed a metal outbuilding.
March 1997HailBrentwood-A severe thunderstorm produced nickel size hail at Brentwood.
June 1995HailBrentwood-no account filed
October 1995HailBrentwood-no account filed
May 1994HailBrentwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Wyola3.4 miles15
Woolsey3.7 miles17
Pitkin Corner4.0 miles17
Arnett4.3 miles15
Winslow4.3 miles15
Porters Store (historical)5.4 miles15
Carter (historical)5.5 miles15
Sunset6.0 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BrentwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4961741The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 81845. 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.