BlockBefore

Cord, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Black River-Marshell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72524. The Survey maps it on the Cord quadrangle. It stands 328 feet above sea level.

Cord within Independence County

On record in Cord

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

29 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Cord between 1999 and 2020, burning about 376 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1

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
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 April 2004Arson/incendiarism25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 March 2016Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 March 2003Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 March 2007Debris and open burning4.0 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cord: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Independence County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cord in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 2010Thunderstorm WindCord$30,000A home was damaged and a barn was destroyed.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCord$15,000Numerous trees were blown down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCord$15,000Two businesses had minor damage and a roof was blown off a mobile home.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindCord$1,000A tree was blown down on Arkansas Highway 25.
April 2022Flash FloodCord-Arkansas Dept. of Transportation reported a road closure on Hwy. 37 from West Hopewell Rd. to Jackson County Rd. 64 in Cord due to high water. The time was based on radar data.
February 2019Flash FloodCord-Water was over all lanes of Hwy 37.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCord-Social media reported trees and power lines down.
April 2003Tornado (F0)Cord-A weak tornado touched down about 4.5 miles east of Cord and traveled to the northeast into Jackson County. The tornado tracked along the Black River bottoms and downed some trees.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCord-Some trees were blown down.
April 2006HailCord-no account filed
April 2005HailCord-no account filed
August 2003HailCord-no account filed
August 2003HailCord-no account filed
March 2003HailCord-no account filed

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
Dota2.2 miles11
Walnut Grove2.8 miles11
Dowdy3.4 miles12
Hazel Grove4.3 miles12
Pleasant Hill4.7 miles11
Charlotte5.1 miles11
Lockheart (historical)5.1 miles11
Lockheart5.4 miles10

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 CordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5169869The 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 48039. 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.