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Cargile, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1989. It stands in El Dorado Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71730. The Survey maps it on the El Dorado West quadrangle.

Cargile within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Cargile between 1999 and 2020, burning about 595 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined45
Debris and open burning41
Arson/incendiarism12
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use4

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 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2015Debris and open burning30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Cargile: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Bromine, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
El Dorado Monument WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
El Dorado Sulphur PlantSulfurProducer
Bounds PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jet Asphalt & Rock CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ouchita Aggregate Co,IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arkansas Chemicals,IncBrominePast Producer
Great Lakes Chemical MarysvilleBrominePast Producer
Michigan Bromine Plant & MineBromineProducer
Veliscol CorpBrominePast Producer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cargile in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2014: 4 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCargile-Trees were downed on and in the vicinity of Mount Union Road.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCargile-Trees and powerlines were downed in the south part of the county.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCargile-Trees and powerlines were downed in the south part of the county.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCargile-A tree was downed on Iron Mountain Road south of town.

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
Smith1.5 miles19
Lamberton2.4 miles18
Pickering3.4 miles19
El Dorado3.6 miles19
Catesville3.7 miles18
Parkers Chapel3.8 miles19
Foster Hill4.6 miles18
Newell5.0 miles19

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 Q122544810The 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 57510. 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.