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Frenchport, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lafayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71701. The Survey maps it on the Louann quadrangle. It stands 236 feet above sea level.

Frenchport within Ouachita County

On record in Frenchport

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

134 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Frenchport between 1998 and 2020, burning about 463 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 36 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
Debris and open burning42
Arson/incendiarism36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2007Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Smoking3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouachita County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frenchport in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
March 2010Thunderstorm WindFrenchport$10,000Some trees were blown down in the Frenchport area.
April 2020HailFrenchport-The public reported nickel size hail.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindFrenchport-Trees were reported down on Ouachita County Road 67 southeast of Camden near Frenchport.
April 2003HailFrenchport-no account filed
December 2002HailFrenchport-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindFrenchport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ouachita 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
Elliott2.8 miles16
Rendezvous3.9 miles17
Kirkland4.3 miles16
Cross Roads4.7 miles16
Cullendale5.3 miles17
Fairview5.5 miles17
Liberty5.6 miles16
Louann5.6 miles16

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 FrenchportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5502732The 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 76979. 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.