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Gethsemane, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dudley Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72004. The Survey maps it on the Gethsemane quadrangle.

Gethsemane within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Gethsemane between 2001 and 2020, burning about 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2

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
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 June 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 October 2015Debris and open burning9.9 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gethsemane in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2011: 2 funnel cloud, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Funnel CloudGethsemane-no account filed
April 2011Funnel CloudGethsemane-no account filed
April 1999Tornado (F1)Gethsemane-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Haywood4.8 miles13
Sherrill4.9 miles13
Tucker5.0 miles13
Ellison5.4 miles13
Wabbaseka5.4 miles14
Ferda5.5 miles13
Diantha (historical)5.7 miles13
Newtown5.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 49385. 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.