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Clipper, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Homan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71854. The Survey maps it on the Fulton quadrangle.

Clipper within Miller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

29 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Clipper between 1997 and 2017, burning about 460 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2

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
6 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism33 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2011Natural80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism24 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1999Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Clipper: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
No NameClayPast Producer
No NameClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Miller County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clipper in 1 storm report in 2008: 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 2008Thunderstorm WindClipper-Trees were blown down near the intersection of U.S. 67 and Interstate 30.

Every storm recorded in Miller 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
Homan2.7 miles17
Clear Lake Junction5.1 miles17
Hervey6.5 miles15
Paup6.8 miles17
Dooley7.1 miles15
Mandeville8.6 miles15
Index10.1 miles13
Rondo11.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 56962. 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.