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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1906 USGS Barber quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Barber quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Ione quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Ione quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Ione quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
87 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2000 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Ouachita National Forest | EAST WILDERNESS |
| 29 September 1999 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ouachita National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2009 | Flash Flood | Elm Park | $50,000 | A 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 2020 | Flash Flood | Elm Park | - | Scott County Sheriff office reported high water over Highway 23. |
| January 2023 | Hail | Elm Park | - | no account filed |
| January 2023 | Hail | Elm Park | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boothe | 1.6 miles | 22 | |
| Lewis | 2.2 miles | 22 | |
| Bluff Ridge (historical) | 2.6 miles | 22 | |
| Kings Creek (historical) | 3.9 miles | 22 | |
| Evening Shade | 5.1 miles | 31 | |
| Abbott | 5.3 miles | 22 | |
| Colburn Spring (historical) | 5.9 miles | 31 | |
| Hon | 6.6 miles | 31 |
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 Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5366295 | The 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.











