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Carmel, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 2. It lies in ZIP code area 71671. The Survey maps it on the Warren quadrangle.

Carmel within Bradley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

68 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Carmel between 2001 and 2020, burning about 485 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined28
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural3
Smoking1
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
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined33 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionBRA8262819
20 September 2004Debris and open burning45 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2010Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2015Natural13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bradley County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Carmel: 12 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gemstone. 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
Unk Gravel PitGemstoneProducer
Bradley County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
H L O'Neill Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hopewell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bradley County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carmel in 1 storm report in 2018: 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
February 2018Flash FloodCarmel-Portions of Highway 8 South were closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Bradley 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
Sumpter4.2 miles18
Corinth4.5 miles9
Sandtuck (historical)4.6 miles18
Warren4.7 miles13
Mannstown4.8 miles18
Cloquet (historical)5.2 miles13
Greenville5.7 miles18
Gin (historical)6.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 56952. 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.