Cominto, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cominto Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71655. The Survey maps it on the Cominto quadrangle.

Cominto within Drew County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1935 USGS Cominto quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Collins quadrangle1:62500
1960 USGS Cominto quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Dumas quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Cominto between 2001 and 2019, burning about 531 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Debris and open burning	7
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	125 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2003	Natural	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2012	Natural	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	17 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 June 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 June 2016	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Drew County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cominto in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2014: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Cominto	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cominto	-	Trees were blown down on railroad tracks.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Cominto	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs and power lines.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cominto	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down some large tree limbs.
March 2014	Hail	Cominto	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Drew 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Jade (historical)	2.0 miles	14
Collins	3.4 miles	14
Enon	4.0 miles	14
Deane	4.1 miles	14
Jordan (historical)	4.1 miles	13
Jeter (historical)	5.2 miles	14
Old Piney (historical)	6.8 miles	14
Baxter	7.0 miles	13

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.

Wikidata item Q122598563

The 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 76658. 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.