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De Roche, Arkansas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in De Roche Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71929. It stands on Sanders Creek. The Survey maps it on the De Roche quadrangle.

De Roche within Hot Spring County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

134 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of De Roche between 1997 and 2019, burning about 848 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 46 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 burning49
Arson/incendiarism46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
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
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2012Arson/incendiarism60 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring 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 De Roche: 1 unknown. 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, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Hot Spring County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names De Roche in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
January 2013Thunderstorm WindDe Roche$5,000Several trees were blown down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindDe Roche$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down in De Roche.
February 2018FloodDe Roche-Arkansas State Police reported Highway 84 near McCann Drive and Deer Creek Road was blocked due to high water.
June 2011HailDe Roche-no account filed
May 2011HailDe Roche-no account filed
April 2008HailDe Roche-no account filed
May 2001HailDe Roche-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDe Roche-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hot Spring 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
Sanders (historical)1.0 miles7
Antioch3.9 miles11
Caney5.0 miles7
Duffie (historical)5.1 miles8
Old De Roche5.4 miles8
Bismarck6.1 miles8
Oak Bower6.5 miles8
Saginaw6.7 miles11

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 Q122568639The 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 76757. 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.