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Capps City, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sulphur Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71834. The Survey maps it on the Doddridge quadrangle.

Capps City within Miller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

222 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Capps City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,476 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 112 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
Arson/incendiarism112
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Debris and open burning33
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
9 September 2005Debris and open burning15 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
9 September 2005Natural10 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
8 September 2005Natural160 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use277 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMILLER-LA
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Capps City in 2 storm reports in 2009: 1 flash flood, 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
December 2009Flash FloodCapps City$145,000County Road 5 was underwater and closed. Several other roads were closed and underwater across the county. The damage to infrastructure resulted in Miller County receiving Federal assistance.
April 2009HailCapps City-Hail fell 2 miles west of Kiblah on CR 5 at the west fork of Kelly Bayou.

Every storm recorded in Miller 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
Era (historical)1.1 miles16
Ravanna4.6 miles13
Kiblah4.8 miles16
Doddridge6.1 miles16
Smithville6.2 miles15
Hammons6.2 miles13
Brightstar6.6 miles16
Spring Bank (historical)7.6 miles15

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 Q122568979The 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 57507. 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.