Carpenter, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Veasey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71642. It stands on North Fork Panther Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ladelle quadrangle.

Carpenter within Drew County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Ladelle quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

70 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Carpenter between 2001 and 2020, burning about 395 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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 burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Drew County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Carpenter: 14 unknowns, 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Drew County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carpenter in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2009	Flood	Carpenter	$100,000	Within Drew County, flooding of the Saline River damaged roads and impacted cabins along the river. A few structures were impacted north of the Longview community at the Arkansas Highway 8 bridge, near Gee's Landing, and Ozment Bluff. About 3 to 5 structures were impacted by the high river stages. County roads in the flood plain of southwest Drew county were also impacted.

Every storm recorded in Drew 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Goose Hollow	0.8 miles	9
Lacey	3.1 miles	9
Youngstown	3.1 miles	9
Scipio	3.1 miles	9
Valley Junction	3.8 miles	9
Prairie Grove	4.7 miles	9
Ladelle	4.8 miles	9
Beulah	5.4 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 78979. 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.