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Glencoe, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Strawberry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72539. The Survey maps it on the Agnos quadrangle. It stands 784 feet above sea level.

Glencoe within Fulton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

173 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Glencoe between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,278 acres in total. None started naturally. 45 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 burning83
Arson/incendiarism45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism45 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Glencoe: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Magnesium Compounds. 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
Crusher No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pierce Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rice FarmMagnesium CompoundsUnknown

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glencoe in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGlencoe$5,000Some trees were blown down.
July 2018Flash FloodGlencoe-Ropers Circle was flooded and with debris near Glencoe.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindGlencoe-A barn was destroyed at Glencoe.
May 2001HailGlencoe-Hail up to one inch in diameter covered the ground at Glencoe.
April 2014HailGlencoe-no account filed
August 2003HailGlencoe-no account filed
August 2002HailGlencoe-no account filed
April 2001HailGlencoe-no account filed
April 2001HailGlencoe-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindGlencoe-no account filed
December 1996Thunderstorm WindGlencoe-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
Morriston2.6 miles11
Heart2.7 miles9
Agnos3.2 miles9
Fairview4.4 miles11
French5.4 miles9
Wheeling6.4 miles11
Kittle6.6 miles9
Salem6.6 miles11

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 GlencoeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5568241The 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 57032. 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.