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Cavanaugh, Arkansas

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1879 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Upper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72908. The Survey maps it on the South Fort Smith quadrangle.

Cavanaugh within Sebastian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Cavanaugh between 1993 and 2017, burning about 104 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
15 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2012Arson/incendiarism12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 April 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cavanaugh: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aggregate, Light Weight. 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
Rescolite CompanyAggregate, Light WeightPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fort Smith PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cavanaugh in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 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
June 2019Flash FloodCavanaugh$15,000Cars were stranded in flood water in south Forth Smith, where swift water rescues were conducted.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindCavanaugh$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs and power lines.
May 2015Flash FloodCavanaugh-Roads were flooded on the southwest side of Fort Smith.

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
Bashe0.5 miles25
South Fort Smith1.9 miles25
Mill Creek1.9 miles25
Buell2.4 miles25
Saw Mill2.7 miles25
Enterprise3.2 miles25
Crescent3.9 miles25
White Bluff4.0 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57528. 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.