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Brockett, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72455. It stands on Knotts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pocahontas quadrangle.

Brockett within Randolph County

On record in Brockett

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

6 surveys from 12 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

59 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Brockett between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,012 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism8
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
2 September 2014Debris and open burning12 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionRAN28393895
12 September 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 2010Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 June 2012Smoking25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Brockett: 8 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Iron. 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
H M Bishop FarmIronProspect
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brockett in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2023: 3 flood. 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 2023FloodBrockett-Heavy rain brought flooding to the Black River at Pocahontas in early March.
April 2022FloodBrockett-Heavy rain brought flooding to the Black River at Pocahontas in early April.
February 2018FloodBrockett-Highway 166 was blocked at mile 3 due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Cedar Grove0.6 miles12
Stokes1.3 miles12
Engelberg1.8 miles12
Debrow (historical)1.8 miles12
Attica2.9 miles12
Poluca (historical)3.5 miles12
Running Lake (historical)3.6 miles12
Jerrett4.5 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122554804The 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 57442. 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.