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Curtis, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Caddo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71743. It stands on Waggle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Curtis quadrangle. It stands 239 feet above sea level.

Curtis within Clark County

On record in Curtis

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 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

112 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Curtis between 1997 and 2020, burning about 963 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 15 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism15
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Natural6
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 2005Debris and open burning15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined177 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionCLA2285712
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Curtis: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
UnkClayUnknown
Hardin Lavenrne S & GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mine Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R MorrisSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Curtis in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindCurtis$50,000Numerous trees were knocked down.
June 2008LightningCurtis$20,000Lightning set fire to a barn.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCurtis-Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
July 2007Flash FloodCurtis-Water was reported over Central Road.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindCurtis-Trees down.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindCurtis-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs.
April 2008HailCurtis-no account filed
April 2008HailCurtis-no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindCurtis-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindCurtis-no account filed
June 1996HailCurtis-no account filed
May 1996HailCurtis-no account filed
April 1994HailCurtis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Midway1.1 miles9
Richwoods2.9 miles9
Smithton (historical)4.0 miles16
Smithton4.0 miles16
Gum Springs4.8 miles9
Gurdon5.9 miles16
Keyton (historical)6.3 miles16
Red Springs6.9 miles17

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 CurtisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5195652The 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 57620. 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.