BlockEmpire, Arkansas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in District 7. It lies in ZIP code area 71661. The Survey maps it on the Empire quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1936 USGS Eudora quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Eudora quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Empire quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Crossett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Empire between 2005 and 2006, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 October 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Empire in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Flood | Empire | $500,000 | Some 80 roads across the county had flooded. Persistent rains over the past week have produced four to six inches and the water has no place to drain. |
| January 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Empire | $70,000 | This tornado moved out of Ashley and into to Chicot County and caused minor damage to trees and power lines. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Empire | $15,000 | Several roads were flooded across the county. Flooding occurred at the Lakeside School in Lake Village. |
| January 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Empire | $10,000 | A shed had the roof peeled and a wall pushed inward in this area. |
| January 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Empire | $5,000 | Thunderstorms blew several trees down. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Empire | $5,000 | A swath of quarter to hen egg sized hail occurred across all of southern Chicot County as a supercell storm tracked east. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Empire | $2,000 | Water was across Tuggle Road near Arkansas Highway 160. |
| February 2009 | Hail | Empire | $2,000 | An isolated severe storm caused a swath of nickel to half dollar size hail across the southern portion of the 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ross Van Ness | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Albritton (historical) | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Boeuf | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Wellford | 7.9 miles | 12 | |
| Gum Corner | 8.5 miles | 12 | |
| Hanna | 9.0 miles | 12 | |
| Indian | 9.1 miles | 12 | |
| Eudora | 9.2 miles | 12 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q18150436 | 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 57722. 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.