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Gid, Arkansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Gid Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72556. It lies near Reeves Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mount Pleasant quadrangle.

Gid within Izard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

127 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Gid between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,929 acres in total. None started naturally. 46 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/incendiarism46
Debris and open burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
6 September 2002Debris and open burning80 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Izard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Gid: 12 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite, Lead. 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
Time StokesIron, Sulfur-Pyrite, LeadOccurrence
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Adler Hollow MineManganesePast Producer1918
Bevans ProspectManganeseProspect
C L Sanders ProspectManganesePast Producer1917
Cave Hill MineManganesePast Producer1917
E D Winkle ProspectManganesePast Producer
Earl Collie MineManganesePast Producer1917
H.J.Ray ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Henry King ProspectManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Izard County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gid in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 1 tornado, 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
September 2008Tornado (EF0)Gid$25,000A weak tornado was spawned by Tropical Depression Gustav. A mobile home had damage to its roof, the porch roof and the underpinning were torn off, and the carport sailed up a hill and became stuck in a fence. A storm door was torn off a house, as were a few pieces of siding. A carport and trampoline at a house were destroyed. A few large limbs were torn off trees.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindOld Gid-Trees were blown down on West Rd.

Every storm recorded in Izard 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
Lunenburg3.1 miles10
Stella3.7 miles9
Lafferty4.8 miles19
Sage5.0 miles9
Mount Pleasant5.5 miles19
Guion5.8 miles14
Melbourne6.2 miles10
Bone Town6.2 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.

Wikipedia article on GidAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18151601The 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 57031. 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.