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Grand Lake, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in District 9. It lies in ZIP code area 71640. The Survey maps it on the Readland quadrangle.

Grand Lake within Chicot County

On record in Grand Lake

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

6 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

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Grand Lake between 2004 and 2011, burning about 73 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 March 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 March 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 February 2004Arson/incendiarism45 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 February 2004Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 November 2005Arson/incendiarism13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chicot County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Lake in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2013: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGrand Lake$30,000A tractor trailor was rolled over on Highway 65 southeast of Eudora. A few trees and power lines were blown down in the area as well.
April 2013Tornado (EF0)Grand Lake-This brief tornado touched down in an open field southeast of Eudora along US Highway 65. A picture was taken (by a trained spotter) as the tornado kicked up dust as it moved in an east northeastward direction. A condensation funnel was visible that had distinct rotation. No damage occurred. Maximum wind speeds were estimated at 75 mph.
March 2012HailGrand Lake-One inch hail fell along Grand Lake Loop.
November 2001HailGrand Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chicot 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
Readland1.8 miles13
Eudora3.0 miles12
Hanna3.2 miles12
Scaife (historical)4.0 miles14
Sterling (historical)4.8 miles13
Indian5.0 miles12
Wellford6.3 miles12
Harwood6.5 miles14

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 Grand LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20657815The 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 77051. 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.