Butlerville, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Butler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72176. The Survey maps it on the Wattensaw quadrangle.

Butlerville within Lonoke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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.

1940 USGS Lonoke quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Lonoke quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Lonoke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Wattensaw quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Brinkley quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

33 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Butlerville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 694 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2014	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	WHI17938919
23 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	17 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lonoke County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butlerville in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2016: 5 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Butlerville	$25,000	A trailer was blown off its foundation. The frame was broken in half and the windows were blown out.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Butlerville	$5,000	Winds were estimated at 60 mph and power lines were blown down around Butlerville.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Butlerville	-	A few small trees were down near Highway 38.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Butlerville	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Butlerville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lonoke 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mount Springs Estates	3.9 miles	14
Woodlawn	4.3 miles	14
Wattensaw	4.8 miles	14
Sylvania	5.0 miles	14
Oak Grove	5.2 miles	14
Mount Carmel Estates	5.7 miles	14
Waterproof	5.8 miles	14
Eagle Park (historical)	5.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57483. 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.