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Camp, Arkansas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1983. It stands in South Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72520. The Survey maps it on the Camp quadrangle. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Camp within Fulton County

On record in Camp

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

85 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Camp between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,430 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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 burning47
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1
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
7 September 2004Debris and open burning22 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2002Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2010Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Camp: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesium Compounds. 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
Pierce Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rice FarmMagnesium CompoundsUnknown

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camp in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash 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
April 2008Flash FloodCamp$20,000A minivan was swept away while trying to cross a low water crossing on Pleasant Valley Road in Camp.
April 2026HailCamp-Ping-pong ball sized hail fell north of Salem.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCamp-A tree was blown down along Hwy. 9.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCamp-Trees and power lines were downed.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCamp-Trees were downed just southwest of town on Arkansas Highway 9.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCamp-Trees and large tree limbs were downed from Camp to Fryatt and Mammoth Spring.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCamp-Trees downed.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindCamp-Power lines down.
August 2008HailCamp-no account filed
March 2007HailCamp-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindCamp-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindCamp-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
French4.3 miles9
Salem5.5 miles11
Fryatt5.6 miles8
Heart6.3 miles9
Saddle6.5 miles9
Moko6.7 miles11
Sturkie7.9 miles11
Glencoe8.3 miles9

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 CampAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5026934The 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 47305. 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.