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Brush Creek, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Tennessee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72084. The Survey maps it on the Willow quadrangle.

Brush Creek within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

125 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Brush Creek between 1997 and 2020, burning about 936 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 36 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 burning38
Arson/incendiarism36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Brush Creek: 9 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Dw PhillipSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brush Creek in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBrush Creek-Thunderstorm winds caused damage to power lines, resulting in some power outages.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBrush Creek-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs.
June 1995HailBrush Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Lucian (historical)0.8 miles9
Carver1.9 miles9
Thiel2.7 miles9
Arthur (historical)3.1 miles8
Leola4.7 miles9
Lenham5.7 miles9
Dogwood6.9 miles9
Poyen7.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 56942. 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.