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Carolan, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Cauthron Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72927. It stands on Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Golden City quadrangle.

Carolan within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

97 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Carolan between 1996 and 2019, burning about 1,100 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 20 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 burning26
Arson/incendiarism20
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use10
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 2005Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Natural15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresOuachita National ForestGOLDEN CITY
2 September 2000Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carolan in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
March 2008Flash FloodCarolan$10,000There was minor flooding with low water crossings covered.

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Golden City3.7 miles22
Glendale4.0 miles23
Ione4.2 miles22
Booneville4.4 miles22
Barber4.6 miles23
Tate4.7 miles22
Mixon5.3 miles22
Grayson6.4 miles22

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 CarolanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5044649The 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 71013. 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.