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Cato, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 72120. It sits by Cato Point. The Survey maps it on the Cato quadrangle.

Cato within Faulkner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Cato between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,876 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism6
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
2 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2004Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 April 2001Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 April 1997Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 April 1997Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Faulkner County

Storms near this place

13 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cato in 13 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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 2017Tornado (EF1)Cato$10,000After the tornado crossed into Faulkner County, the tornado caused several trees to snap or be uprooted. Additional, the tornado caused minor roofing damage and an outbuilding to collapse.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindCato$10,000A few trees were downed.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindCato$500An eight to ten inch diameter oak tree limb was down across a highway.
January 2024HailCato-Quarter sized hail fell in the community of Cato, AR.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCato-A tree was blown down in the town of Cato.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Cato-This tornado touched down just south of the Faulkner County near the intersection of Frenchman Mountain and Watson Roads, moving northeast from Pulaski County into far southeast portions of Faulkner County. This tornado then passed back into Pulaski county near the Bridgefield neighborhood.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCato-The Cato Fire Department estimated winds at 60 mph.
September 2009Flash FloodCato-Water was a foot deep over Cato Road.
August 2018HailCato-no account filed
April 2011HailCato-no account filed
March 2010HailCato-no account filed
April 2009HailCato-no account filed
April 2005HailCato-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faulkner 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
Gentry Corner2.6 miles17
Brockington Corner3.4 miles17
Chadwick (historical)6.0 miles17
Saltillo7.7 miles12
Otto7.9 miles11
Duncans Gap (historical)8.8 miles11
Mayflower9.0 miles19
Gold Lake Estates9.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 47527. 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.