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Charlotte, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dota Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72522. It stands on Dry Fork Dota Creek. The Survey maps it on the Charlotte quadrangle. It stands 354 feet above sea level.

Charlotte within Independence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

50 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Charlotte between 1997 and 2020, burning about 690 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 1999Smoking5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Independence County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Charlotte: 5 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
UnkManganeseUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unk Gravel Pits 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Independence County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Charlotte in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindCharlotte$65,000A mobile home was rolled, destroying it. Three other homes had roof and outbuilding damage. Trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2012LightningCharlotte$15,000Lightning set fire to an outbuilding.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindCharlotte-An NWS survey team found damage consistent with a strong microburst with estimated wind speed of 80 to 90 mph. Several trees and small structures were found damaged near the community of Charlotte.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCharlotte-Multiple trees and power lines downed across Independence county with many blocking roadways. The hardest hit areas within the county were the towns of Charlotte, Cord, and Newark. Approximately 6,000 customers lost power due to the damaging winds.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindCharlotte-Trees were down along Hwy 25.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindCharlotte-Thunderstorm winds knocked down a number of trees and power lines. Several homes also sustained some structural damage.

Every storm recorded in Independence 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
Pleasant Hill3.0 miles11
Walnut Grove3.1 miles11
Dota3.6 miles11
Cord5.1 miles12
Mount Carmel5.1 miles14
Gainsboro5.1 miles20
Sharp5.1 miles20
Hazel Grove5.6 miles12

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 CharlotteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5085792The 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 47710. 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.