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Herpel, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in District 9. It lies in ZIP code area 72560. It lies near Wade Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Sylamore quadrangle.

Herpel within Stone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

90 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Herpel between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,079 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Arson/incendiarism23
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
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
29 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1997Debris and open burning100 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Herpel: 7 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Manganese, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Bolt SpurLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Guion Mine & PlantSilica, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerMassive bedded St. Peter Sandstone
Alex Fulks ProspectManganeseProspect
G.F.Fulks ProspectManganeseUnknown
UnkStoneProducer
UnkStoneProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stone County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Herpel in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 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
September 2008Flash FloodHerpel$20,000Arkansas Highway 14 was under water about 5 miles east of Mountain View.
July 2024Flash FloodHerpel-In the vicinity of Mountain View, the area of Round Bottom Road and Herpel Road was flooded and was evacuated due to rising water.

Every storm recorded in Stone 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
Allison5.2 miles16
Mountain View5.5 miles14
East Richwoods7.1 miles14
Saint James7.5 miles15
Gayler7.7 miles16
Kahoka (historical)7.9 miles15
Hanover8.8 miles14
Pleasant Grove8.8 miles15

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 Q122567044The 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 71976. 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.