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Gepp, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Vidette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72538. The Survey maps it on the Gepp quadrangle. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

Gepp within Fulton County

On record in Gepp

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

11 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

84 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Gepp between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,813 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 29 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 burning33
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1999Debris and open burning20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2006Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gepp: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Highway 87 Pit & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gepp in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
December 2012Thunderstorm WindGepp$250,000One duplex lost its entire roof, several mobile homes were damaged, several outbuildings were damaged or destroyed, and highway signs were blown down. The area affected was so small that only about 100 electric customers lost service.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindGepp$40,000A shop building was reported destroyed.
April 2022HailGepp$10,000Four inch hail was estimated and windshields were broken.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindGepp$10,000Power lines were blown down in the area.
May 2022Flash FloodGepp-All roads were impassable in Gepp.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGepp-Several trees were blown down.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGepp-A mobile home was flipped over. Three occupants were inside, however escaped uninjured. Trees were also blown down.
May 2017HailGepp-Nickel size hail fell for 15 minutes.
April 2006HailGepp-Several vehicles were damaged by the large hail.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindGepp-Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few trees and some large tree limbs.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindGepp-Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree onto a power line.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindGepp-Several signs were blown down.
March 2015HailGepp-no account filed
February 2012HailGepp-no account filed
May 2009HailGepp-no account filed
April 2009HailGepp-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Argosy (historical)1.6 miles16
Ruth2.1 miles18
Vidette2.8 miles16
Pickren Hall3.9 miles16
Elizabeth3.9 miles16
Viola6.5 miles11
Mitchell6.6 miles16
County Line7.3 miles18

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 GeppAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5548694The 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 57538. 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.