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Elm Park, Arkansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1987. It stands in District 9. It lies in ZIP code area 72927. It stands on Packsaddle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ione quadrangle. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Elm Park within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Elm Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,094 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural7
Smoking1

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
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2004Debris and open burning15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2004Debris and open burning11 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Natural3.0 acresOuachita National ForestEAST WILDERNESS
29 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOuachita National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elm Park in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 2 hail. 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
October 2009Flash FloodElm Park$50,000A school bus was washed off Tate Road and into a creek. Water came up about 6 feet on the bus. The driver and one student on the bus were rescued and were not injured.
August 2020Flash FloodElm Park-Scott County Sheriff office reported high water over Highway 23.
January 2023HailElm Park-no account filed
January 2023HailElm Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Boothe1.6 miles22
Lewis2.2 miles22
Bluff Ridge (historical)2.6 miles22
Kings Creek (historical)3.9 miles22
Evening Shade5.1 miles31
Abbott5.3 miles22
Colburn Spring (historical)5.9 miles31
Hon6.6 miles31

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 Elm ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5366295The 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 71557. 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.