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Creswell, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Claiborne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72519. It stands on Cat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boswell quadrangle.

Creswell within Izard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Creswell between 1992 and 2018, burning about 2,017 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 34 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 burning34
Arson/incendiarism34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 1998Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2000Natural9.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsCHRIS
11 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1996Natural15 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsHOG
6 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsFREEMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard 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 Creswell: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Izard County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Creswell in 1 storm report in 2000: 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 2000Thunderstorm WindCreswell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Izard 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
Calico Rock2.1 miles19
Gorby2.7 miles19
Pleasant Valley3.9 miles19
Vest (historical)4.2 miles19
Forty Four5.0 miles17
Boswell5.0 miles19
Pineville5.0 miles17
Mount Olive6.4 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76704. 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.