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Cauthron, Arkansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in District 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72958. It stands on Widow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cauthron quadrangle.

Cauthron within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Cauthron between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,109 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 15 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/incendiarism15
Natural8
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony3

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
23 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOuachita National ForestLOTT FIRE
12 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use146 acresOuachita National Forest400
10 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOuachita National Forestnot named
1 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1995Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOuachita National Forestnot named
27 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use43 acresOuachita National ForestSAW FIRE
26 August 1999Natural3.0 acresOuachita National ForestNORTH CAUTHRON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cauthron: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Scott County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cauthron in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2014: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2014Thunderstorm WindCauthron$5,000Phone lines were blown down.
December 2003HailCauthron-no account filed
May 2003HailCauthron-no account filed
December 1999HailCauthron-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Oliver2.1 miles21
Morgan Springs2.7 miles21
Sensation (historical)3.7 miles20
Bryan4.0 miles31
Brawley4.7 miles20
Bates4.8 miles21
Gipson5.0 miles21
Hon6.3 miles31

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 CauthronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65122711The 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 76550. 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.