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Fenter, Arkansas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fenter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72167. The Survey maps it on the Traskwood quadrangle.

Fenter within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

219 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of Fenter between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,951 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 101 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
Arson/incendiarism101
Debris and open burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2004Arson/incendiarism31 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Arson/incendiarism34 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fenter: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium. 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
Wilcox Group KaolinAluminum, Iron, Silica, TitaniumOccurrence
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fenter in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2026: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindFenter-Trees and powerlines were blown down along Arkansas Highway 229 near Fenter.
February 2020Flash FloodFenter-Water was moving over Hwy 229 north of Poyen.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
McLean (historical)2.0 miles9
Poyen3.6 miles9
Buie4.3 miles8
Lenham5.3 miles9
Tull5.9 miles9
Prattsville6.2 miles8
Arthur (historical)8.5 miles8
Thiel9.1 miles9

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 Q122565756The 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 57747. 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.