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Crigler, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cane Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71667. The Survey maps it on the Star City quadrangle.

Crigler within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

53 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Crigler between 2001 and 2019, burning about 324 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
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Debris and open burning11 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2010Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Crigler: 5 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 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
Lincoln County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crigler in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2017: 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2017Flash FloodCrigler-Several roads were completely underwater in and around the park with water flowind across the main entrance to the park.
August 2012Heavy RainCrigler-Rainfall measured 5.39 inches in 24 hours at Cane Creek State Park.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Meroney1.9 miles13
Todd (historical)3.2 miles11
Fresno3.3 miles13
Nebo3.9 miles15
Star City4.1 miles11
Calhoun4.7 miles11
Yorktown5.0 miles15
Phenix5.1 miles15

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 Q122566122The 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 76706. 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.