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Graphic, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in District 13. It lies in ZIP code area 72946. The Survey maps it on the Mountainburg SW quadrangle.

Graphic within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

123 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Graphic between 1996 and 2020, burning about 798 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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 burning58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
Natural2

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
9 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2000Smoking30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graphic in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 2 tornado, 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 2024Tornado (EF1)Graphic$50,000This tornado uprooted trees, a couple of which fell onto homes, and snapped large tree limbs. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.
May 2021Tornado (EF1)Graphic$20,000This tornado uprooted numerous trees, and blew down power poles. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.
August 2019Flash FloodGraphic$10,000Portions of West Graphic Road were flooded south of Mountainburg. A vehicle was driven into the flood water, resulting in a swift water rescue.

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Belmont (historical)2.1 miles17
Cain2.6 miles17
Dean Springs3.8 miles17
Lancaster (historical)4.5 miles17
Mountainburg4.5 miles16
Deans Market5.0 miles17
Dyer5.6 miles22
Pleasant Hill6.1 miles16

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 GraphicAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18326170The 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 71808. 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.