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.
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
Capt. John T. Burkett Houselisted 1998
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1953 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Louann quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Louann quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
134 since 1998Regional 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 burning | 42 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2007 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1999 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frenchport | $10,000 | Some trees were blown down in the Frenchport area. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Frenchport | - | The public reported nickel size hail. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frenchport | - | Trees were reported down on Ouachita County Road 67 southeast of Camden near Frenchport. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Frenchport | - | no account filed |
| December 2002 | Hail | Frenchport | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frenchport | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elliott | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Rendezvous | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Kirkland | 4.3 miles | 16 | |
| Cross Roads | 4.7 miles | 16 | |
| Cullendale | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Fairview | 5.5 miles | 17 | |
| Liberty | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| Louann | 5.6 miles | 16 |
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 Frenchport | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5502732 | 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 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.







