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Center Point, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Center Point Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71852. The Survey maps it on the Center Point quadrangle. 179 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Center Point within Howard County

On record in Center Point

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

71 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Center Point between 1993 and 2015, burning about 372 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 31 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/incendiarism31
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Natural8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Center Point: 15 unknowns, 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Strontium, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Barium-Barite. 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
Section 13 DepositBarium-BariteOccurrence
Howard County GypsumGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Messer Creek ProspectStrontiumOccurrence
Payne ProspectStrontiumOccurrence
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Howard County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center Point in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 2 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
May 1993Thunderstorm WindCenter Point$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees.
April 1995HailCenter Point-Several cars and roofs of buildings were damaged by two-inch-diameter hail.
April 1995HailCenter Point-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Howard 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
Sunshine (historical)3.5 miles14
Blue Bayou4.0 miles14
Mount Carmel4.4 miles14
Chapel Hill4.9 miles14
Temperanceville5.2 miles14
Martha (historical)5.2 miles14
Bethany5.2 miles14
Forgy (historical)5.4 miles14

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 Center PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5059330The 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 76568. 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.