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Ellison, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Plum Bayou Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72004. The Survey maps it on the Rob Roy quadrangle.

Ellison within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Ellison between 2001 and 2019, burning about 208 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
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
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Debris and open burning49 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2004Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionJEF7475303
24 June 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 December 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Ellison: 1 past producer. 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, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellison in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
December 2012Thunderstorm WindEllison$20,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindEllison-Powerlines were knocked down.
June 2019FloodEllison-Heavy rain and upstream reservoir releases led to flooding on the Arkansas River at Pine Bluff.
November 2017HailEllison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Haywood1.8 miles13
Altheimer3.4 miles14
Newtown3.4 miles14
Sherrill3.9 miles13
Rob Roy4.3 miles13
Gethsemane5.4 miles13
Wabbaseka5.7 miles14
Wilkins6.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76872. 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.