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Crabtree, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Mountain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72031. It lies near Crowell Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Scotland quadrangle.

Crabtree within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

60 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Crabtree between 2000 and 2020, burning about 756 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use5
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
27 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 June 2006Debris and open burning80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 June 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Crabtree: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crabtree in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2018: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 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 2009Thunderstorm WindCrabtree$10,000Trees were down.
April 2004Tornado (F0)Crabtree-A weak tornado was spawned in northern Van Buren County roughly 1 to 2 miles southeast of Crabtree. The tornado did little more than skirt some tree tops before dissipating about a mile northwest of Clinton.
April 2018HailCrabtree-no account filed
April 2018HailCrabtree-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Archey (historical)3.2 miles16
Walnut Grove4.1 miles15
Gladys (historical)4.1 miles15
Buzzard Roost (historical)4.5 miles15
Copeland4.8 miles15
Williams Gulf (historical)4.9 miles16
Butter Creek (historical)5.5 miles15
Shake Rag (historical)5.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76700. 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.