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Cypert, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Cleveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72366. The Survey maps it on the Watkins Corner quadrangle.

Cypert within Phillips County

On record in Cypert

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

12 surveys from 16 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

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cypert between 2000 and 2001, burning about 156 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning4
Arson/incendiarism1

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
1 November 2000Arson/incendiarism90 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 October 2000Debris and open burning19 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 October 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 October 2000Debris and open burning31 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 October 2001Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cypert in 1 storm report in 2024: 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 2024Thunderstorm WindCypert-Multiple downed trees in the Cypert community near County Road 606 and Highway 318.

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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
Watkins Corner1.5 miles16
Gobell2.3 miles16
Turner3.4 miles16
Kingtown3.5 miles16
Trenton4.9 miles16
Marvell5.1 miles12
Hicks5.3 miles12
Postelle6.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57621. 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.

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.