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Gulledge, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Elon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71646. It stands on Jackson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berlin quadrangle.

Gulledge within Ashley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

129 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Gulledge between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,066 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 27 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined62
Arson/incendiarism27
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2011Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashley County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gulledge in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 3 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 2009Flash FloodGulledge$10,000Several streets and area road were flooded in the Crossett area due to repeated rounds of heavy rainfall.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindGulledge$6,000A few trees and power lines were blown down across the south portion of Ashley County.
October 2012Thunderstorm WindGulledge$3,000A few trees were blown down.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindGulledge$1,000A tree was split along Highway 425 between the city of Crossett and the state line.

Every storm recorded in Ashley 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
Elon (historical)2.6 miles11
Rolfe Junction3.6 miles11
Rawls4.2 miles11
Unity4.6 miles10
South Crossett5.0 miles11
Forest Park Addition5.4 miles11
Berlin5.8 miles11
Crossett6.2 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122561910The 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 77084. 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.