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Childers, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1994. It stands in White River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72040. The Survey maps it on the Des Arc West quadrangle.

Childers within Prairie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Childers between 1999 and 2005, burning about 8 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
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1

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 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 June 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 May 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Prairie County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Childers in 1 storm report in 2009: 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 2009Thunderstorm WindChilders$15,000Power lines were down across the area.

Every storm recorded in Prairie 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
Harrys3.4 miles16
Letchworth3.8 miles14
Fourmile Corner4.0 miles16
Gospoda4.3 miles14
Harrys (historical)4.5 miles14
Des Arc5.3 miles14
Tarnceville5.5 miles17
Bucks Landing6.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 56958. 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.