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Joyce City, Arkansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71751. The Survey maps it on the Snow Hill quadrangle.

Joyce City within Ouachita County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

146 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Joyce City between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,048 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 30 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/undetermined70
Arson/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2000Smoking4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2011Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ouachita County

Storms near this place

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Joyce City in 1 storm report in 2002: 1 hail. 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 2002HailJoyce City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ouachita 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
Snow Hill0.9 miles16
Standard Umpstead1.4 miles17
Millers Bluff1.6 miles16
Cross Roads4.8 miles16
Louann7.6 miles16
Kirkland9.1 miles16
Frenchport9.5 miles16
Liberty10.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122555566The 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 57072. 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.