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Cairo, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71730. It stands on Warren Branch. The Survey maps it on the Newell quadrangle.

Cairo within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

91 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Cairo between 1997 and 2018, burning about 740 acres in total. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Debris and open burning26
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cairo in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 1 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
October 2009Flash FloodCairo$50,000Highway 82 between Cairo and El Dorado, Arkansas has water covering the highway with cars stalled in the high water.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCairo-Several trees downed across the western portions of Union County.
April 2012HailCairo-Quarter sized hail fell near the community of Marysville, Arkansas.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Shuler3.3 miles13
Lisbon4.3 miles16
Marysville4.7 miles13
Trull5.3 miles14
Dumas City6.6 miles16
Mount Holly7.3 miles16
Newell7.6 miles19
Griffin7.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 56946. 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.