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Catholic Point, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Catholic Point Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72027. The Survey maps it on the Springfield quadrangle.

Catholic Point within Conway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

173 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Catholic Point between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,901 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 72 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/incendiarism72
Debris and open burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
26 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conway County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Catholic Point in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCatholic Point$60,000There was heavy damage to the roofs of the rectory and youth building at the Catholic church. There was minor damage to a pavilion, and trees were blown down in the church cemetery. The same church property had been damaged by a tornado on May 2nd.
May 2025HailCatholic Point-Quarter sized hail was estimated to fall near Catholic Point.

Every storm recorded in Conway 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
Cedar Creek1.8 miles16
Center Ridge2.1 miles16
Grandview2.4 miles16
Friendship3.2 miles16
Pleasant Hill3.3 miles16
Holly Springs3.6 miles16
Birdtown3.9 miles16
Sunnyside4.3 miles17

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 Q122572072The 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 57527. 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.