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Elizabeth, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Big Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72531. The Survey maps it on the Elizabeth quadrangle. It stands 843 feet above sea level.

Elizabeth within Fulton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

109 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Elizabeth between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,328 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 41 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
Arson/incendiarism41
Debris and open burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionFUL28031383
26 August 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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 Elizabeth: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Highway 87 Pit & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elizabeth in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 4 hail, 4 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
March 1997Thunderstorm WindElizabeth$50,000no account filed
January 2020Thunderstorm WindElizabeth$10,000Trees were blown down and damaged a mobile home.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindElizabeth$1,000A tree was blown down in Elizabeth.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindElizabeth-Thirty to forty trees were blown down in Elizabeth.
March 2015HailElizabeth-no account filed
June 2009HailElizabeth-no account filed
May 2004HailElizabeth-no account filed
April 1996HailElizabeth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Ruth3.4 miles18
Argosy (historical)3.8 miles16
Gepp3.9 miles16
Mitchell4.4 miles16
Wild Cherry5.1 miles16
Bexar6.1 miles11
Vidette6.7 miles16
Pickren Hall7.1 miles16

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 ElizabethAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5362221The 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 57711. 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.