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Elliott, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bridge Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71701. The Survey maps it on the Louann quadrangle.

Elliott within Ouachita County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

189 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Elliott between 1997 and 2020, burning about 614 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 42 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined59
Debris and open burning56
Arson/incendiarism42
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2007Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouachita County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elliott in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 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
November 1994Thunderstorm WindElliott$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and an antenna tower.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindElliott$30,000Several power poles and power lines were down across the area.
March 2008HailElliott-Hail covered the ground in Elliott.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindElliott-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs.
June 2019HailElliott-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindElliott-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindElliott-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindElliott-no account filed
April 2002LightningElliott-no account filed
May 2001HailElliott-no account filed
January 1999Thunderstorm WindElliott-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindElliott-no account filed
May 1999HailElliott-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindElliott-no account filed
April 1996HailElliott-no account filed
March 1996HailElliott-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ouachita 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
Frenchport2.8 miles16
Kirkland3.0 miles16
Rendezvous3.6 miles17
Liberty3.7 miles16
Louann5.0 miles16
Fairview5.5 miles17
Cullendale5.7 miles17
Pace City5.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57713. 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.